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Several of the winners have made impressive contributions to public service. Edward Glauser, 22, of the University of South Florida, collected $500,000 worth of food and supplies for the victims of last November's volcanic eruption in Colombia and oversaw the delivery of the goods via van and aircraft. Michael Kujawski, 27, of Marquette University, last year became president of the local chapter of an organization that combats student alcoholism. Marylee James, 45, enrolled at Furman University, is a member of the Navy Reserve and an ex-nurse who counseled Viet Nam veterans before, she says, "it was chic...
...sell his account to El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota. A young reporter named Gabriel Garcia Marquez spent some 120 hours interviewing the survivor and shaping his recollections into a first-person narrative. When this appeared in print, serialized in 14 installments, the paper's circulation nearly doubled, and Colombia's military dictatorship grew embarrassed by some of the details, and then angry. Soon the sailor was forced to leave the navy, the offending paper was shut down, and the reporter embarked on an exile that would lead him one day to the Nobel Prize...
...Caldas does not run into a storm, as the official Colombian version of the incident will assert. The ship begins listing dangerously in high winds and water; its decks are stacked with washing machines and other appliances from the U.S. that are being illegally ferried to Colombia. As his world begins turning upside down, Velasco expects to hear the order to cut loose the cargo. It never comes. Instead, a wave takes him overboard...
...World Bank is accelerating its lending to meet the Treasury Secretary's goal. Last week the bank said it expected that by the end of June it will approve $2.8 billion in loans to six Latin American nations, including Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico. Some $1 billion is earmarked for Mexico, $400 million of which will be used to rebuild the structures destroyed by last September's earthquake. Colombia will receive $176 million for irrigation and rural transport. The bank's actions cap a period of record lending. For the fiscal year that ends in June, World Bank loans...
Name a terrorist group, says the State Department, and Libya has probably provided financial assistance, at least. Gaddafi has backed not just radical Palestinian organizations but outfits as distant as Colombia's M-19 guerrillas, which engineered the bloody takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice last November; the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front on the French Pacific-island territory of New Caledonia; and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. Last month, when Gaddafi played host to the ambitiously titled Congress of the World Center for Struggle Against Imperialism and Zionism, his guests included representatives of the Irish Republican Army...