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Communist Country. By wiping out Tiro Fijo, Colombia would just about end the savage backlands violence that began in 1948 as a feud between the country's Liberals and Conservatives. But catching Sure Shot is no sure thing. Reared in poverty and squalor, he drifted into a Communist guerrilla band in the early 1950s. By 1960 he had his own gang, and moved his family and followers onto a 10,000-acre hacienda near the foot of snow-topped Mount Huila-after killing the hacienda's owner. From his new home Tiro Fijo began taking over all neighboring...
...developing countries, and protective governments aggravate the shortages by slapping prohibitive tariffs on imports. The official purpose seems noble: to help fight inflation, make domestic goods more competitive, and generally steer economies along tried and proven channels. In the Dominican Republic duties average 70% of value; in Colombia they run up to 150% on some items, while Argentina charges 200% on such treasured goods as steak sauce, toys and perfume...
...cope with the smugglers, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador are strengthening their border patrols. Practically every nation is tightening customs regulations. Argentina has gone so far as to bar all imports of furs, Scotch, cigarettes, toys, nylons and sporting equipment. But since no one took the trouble to check the stocks at the time of prohibition, storekeepers have inexhaustible inventories left over-naturally-from before...
...Alberto Lleras Camargo, twice President (1945-46, 1958-62) of Colombia, onetime O.A.S. secretary-general-LL.D. The vision of Bolivar finds contemporary expression in the life of this able son of the New World...
...much gold remains in tombs and other archaeological sites, and every new find becomes an artistic Klondike. Laws in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama that attempt to curb the export of the "national patrimony" are by and large circumvented; if the gold is no longer exported in galleons, it nonetheless gets out. Last week a superb new collection of pre-Columbian art, "The World of Ancient Gold," opened at the Travel and Transportation Pavilion at the New York World's Fair (see opposite page...