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Foreign black star listings include seven fields in Colombia; three in Australia; Rhodes and Corfu in Greece; and eleven others, including Iran's huge airport at Tehran...
...upland city of Manizales, coffee capital of Colombia, new-car sales are booming, and supermarkets stock imported pâté de foie gras. In the Mexican highlands, dirt-poor Indian farmers eat meat with their rice and beans. In Guatemala, small planters who 18 months ago could barely afford bicycles splurge on motorcycles, TV sets and modern farm equipment. "I now own a Datsun truck, and my son is studying engineering," says one. "Enough of eating crud with the chickens...
Plantation Profits. There are some very big exceptions. In Colombia, surging coffee revenues have been accompanied by a riptide of 26% inflation. There, the oligarchic semiofficial Fedecafe sets coffee policies and controls 42% of the trade, while 28 private exporting companies dominate the rest of the market in high-quality beans. The nation's 130,000 backlot growers cannot afford soaring prices for fertilizers, fungicides and equipment. Except in Central America and Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias...
Four undergraduates, including three members of a freshman seminar, will fly to Colombia next Thursday for a ten-day field trip to get acquainted with the tropics and study birds...
Although three of the students who will go to Colombia are also members of Paynter's year-long seminar on the zoography of South American birds, he was anxious to stress that the trip is not part of the seminar...