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...Roman Catholics - including six priests and two nuns - "captured" the cathedral in Santiago, Chile. Barricading the doors against all outsiders for 15 hours, they celebrated an informal liturgy, then issued a manifesto denouncing Pope Paul's scheduled visit this week to the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogota, Colombia. "Christ does not need masses of people singing in the streets, or acclaiming his vicarage, or thousands of wax candles," said the declaration. "The Christ of the poor needs courageous action aimed at changing the conditions of the Latin American people." The Santiago rebels charged that the Pope...
Died. Torkild Rieber, 86, chairman of Texaco from 1935 to 1940, and overseer of one of the greatest engineering feats in oil-industry history; in Manhattan. Shortly after becoming boss, Rieber bought the idle Barco oilfields, 1,200,000 acres deep in the jungles of Colombia, and during three years of collaboration with Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., hacked a 263-mile pipeline over the Andes to service tankers on the country's Caribbean coast...
...Pope will come to Colombia. Of course we will show him the best of this city, but we should take him to the horrid places where people try to survive, like animals, in an incredible misery, full of sickness, without any education and without any hope for a better tomorrow. We should introduce him to family fathers who earn $1 daily with which to provide the needs of a family of twelve. The government, not the church, makes an effort to solve this situation; but every day it is bigger, and it grows in a proportion that prevents solution...
...French to hang on to a lost empire in Indo-China, the insurrection in Greece, the partition riots in India. In a litany of violence, they tick off wars and disorders in Palestine, Malaya, the big conflict in Korea, Quemoy-Matsu, Algeria, Hungary, Suez, South Arabia, Cyprus, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Congo, Angola, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos, Viet Nam, and the third violent clash between Israel and the Arabs...
...when it helped to found the Societe Financiere Europeenne in Paris. The Dresdner's year-old Luxembourg subsidiary is thriving in the fast-expanding Eurobond and Eurodollar markets. Increasing its stake in Latin America, the bank last year bought an interest in local banks in Brazil, Chile and Colombia...