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...carefully photographing the field-one that Russian planes almost never visit-and their suspicions were confirmed when they saw men in the tail camera ports of some planes. It may be assumed that the cameramen also keep busy when Moscow's mercy fleet circles Halifax and Bogotá, Colombia, two other refueling stops along...
...flights will be made in all, many by the giant An-22, which, until the advent of the U.S.'s Lockheed C-5A last year, was the world's largest plane. Though U.S. sources discount rumors that the Soviets considered parachuting supplies to Communist guerrillas operating in Colombia and Venezuela, they suspect that the Soviets seized on the operation as an excuse for making proving flights along the Andes, a region in which they have had minimal flying experience. There is no doubt, furthermore, that the mercy planes have off-loaded cargo in Havana before continuing south...
JERRY SCHOENDORF Cali, Colombia...
...parlors, the coming general elections were all but ignored in favor of an even more pressing issue. Little more than a week before the start of the cup matches in Mexico City, Bobby Moore, captain of England's World Cup soccer team, was arrested in Bogotá, Colombia, on charges of stealing a $1,400 emerald-studded bracelet. The jeweler filed suit for an extra $11,000 in "moral damages," and police picked up hints that Soccer Superstar Bobby Charlton had been Moore's accomplice. Moore is now free on "conditional liberty," but Charlton's wife Norma...
...Urubu Indians of Brazil. When sober, the Urubus are ferocious headhunters; when drunk, they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...