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...problem will be getting Colombia's Congress to go along. Dissident Liberals, Conservatives and followers of ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla control 126 of the 282 seats, more than enough for the one-third needed to block legislation under the current law. The next campaign of the two Llerases will be to change the law to a simple majority-and that may be tougher than winning the presidency itself...
Under the truce established eight years ago between Colombia's Liberals and Conservatives, the two warring parties are supposed to alternate the presidency and join in a single National Front to develop their rich nation. For the past three years, under the wavering hand of Conservative President Guillermo León Valencia, there has been little development, and even less unity. The economy is in tatters, while the front has split into so many quarreling factions that its official candidate in the May 1966 elections, Liberal Carlos Lleras Restrepo, withdrew from the race...
Looking for a Chance. The likelihood is that Lleras Restrepo will win the presidency against a divided opposition next May. He might even be able to do something for Colombia-if he gets the chance. Though he has none of the personal appeal of Lleras Camargo, he is a respected economist and former Finance Minister who knows the hard things he must do to reduce Colombia's spiraling cost of living (up 64% in three years) and soaring foreign debt (up 100%, to $750 million...
Lauchlin Currie, visiting professor at Michigan State, former advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and advisor to the government of Colombia, will speak at 4 p.m. today at Littauer Auditorium...
...diplomatically to every program of hemispheric co-operation. It is stated clearly in Article 15 of the Charter of Bogota, the basic document of policy for the Americas, and it was repeated by nearly every speaker at the Rio Conference. Although the ministers tactfully buried a resolution sponsored by Colombia condemning "a military armed intervention this year in the Dominican Republic", they left no doubt of their dissatisfaction with American policy...