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Around the Caribbean, Latin Americans have a saying when senselessness creeps into affairs. "La banda está borracha," they shrug-"The band is drunk." In mountain-ridged, coffee-growing Colombia, the band went on its binge from 1948 to 1958, when the nation's two ruling parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, fell into an ugly civil war that killed 200,000 Colombians. The country has been suffering from the hangover ever since...
...Conservatives* agreed in 1958 to unite in a National Front, with the presidency alternating between parties every four years, and a two-thirds majority required for all laws. Things calmed down all right; but without any real opposition to the ruling coalition, apathy ensued. With only 40% of Colombia's 7,000,000 adults going to the polls, the front last week won 102 seats in the 190-man House of Representatives, and 60 in the 106-man Senate -short of the needed two-thirds in both cases...
...COLOMBIA Volunteers will work in rural areas under the technical directions and supervision of United Nations FAO and Colombian National Institute of Nutrition officials. They will be concerned with home economics and agricultural extension activities...
...COLOMBIA Under the technical supervision of the American Associations for Health. Physical Education and Recreation and various Colombian agencies. Volunteers will assist in the expansion and improvement of youth programs, physical education programs, sports clubs, etc. throughout the country and will assist in the televising of education programs in health, physical education and recreation...
...LATIN AMERICA Volunteers, depending upon their professional qualifications, will serve as as chief secretaries, office managers or secretaries to staff members in Peace Corps offices in