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Caught in the ideological struggle between East and West-and deploring it most loudly of all-have been the neutral nations of Africa and Asia. In a sharply worded formal statement for the convocation's record, ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia chided many of these hand-wringing bystanders for making a contribution to peace that adds up to zero. Said he: "Too often we apply a very high standard of performance to those powers that have done most to comply with their national and international obligations, even as we acquiesce in the fact that a huge part...
...tour will last ten weeks, with concerts planned in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela...
Coffee Loss. The strike's impact was also felt abroad. Puerto Rico suffered a $150 million trade loss, and Colombia and Brazil lost coffee exports. Reduced shipments of food to India complicated that country's battle with starvation. Volkswagen dealers began to run out of stock in Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta, and Volvo's sales to dealers fell 44% in January...
...Army General Alberto Ruiz Novoa, 48, Colombia's war minister and its most compelling public figure (TIME, Dec. 11). Commander of Colombia's small force in the Korean War, he established a reputation as a reformer in uniform after Valencia brought him into the Cabinet in 1962. At the time, the country was plagued by poverty-fed badlands banditry that had been going on unabated for more than a decade. Ruiz Novoa initiated a program of civic action by the army to help peasants improve their lot. He also reorganized Colombia's army into what is today...
...People? Few Colombians believe that they have heard the last from the ousted general. After he was cashiered, a group of officers pleaded with him to lead a coup against the government. Ruiz Novoa turned them down with a lecture on democracy. Colombia's Social Christian Democrats have offered to make him their candidate in the 1966 presidential elections, and other anti-government parties are talking of a Ruiz Novoa coalition. He has not yet chosen his political affiliation, but that is only a formality he seems certain to fulfill. Wrote the general in a letter to a friend...