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...Time to Delay. In Colombia, though the church hierarchy remains magisterially conservative in the person of 71-year-old Luis Cardinal Concha Córdoba, priests have led peasant pro tests, organized community stores to sell low-cost food to the poor, set up a radio network that beams reading les sons and farming instructions to remote villages. In Mexico (where since 1926 it has been illegal for priests to walk around in cassocks) and in Venezuela, churchmen have sponsored organiza tions of idealistic volunteers who, in Peace Corps fashion, seek to help the poor in slums and backlands...
Along a rural road in western Colombia early this month, some 40 men dressed as soldiers swarmed out from behind roadside boulders and halted an oncoming auto. Brandishing rifles and submachine guns, the men in uniform -bandits in disguise - ordered the three frightened riders out of the car, marched them to a nearby abandoned house, and tied them up. That done, the bandits returned to their hiding place be side the road...
Perhaps the truest measure of the U.S. Peace Corps-of its creed, its ideals, its constructive naivete and its basic worth-was put by a Peace Corpsman who died in the line of duty. Just before he was killed in a plane crash in Colombia while returning to his Peace Corps mission from a short holiday, David Crozier, 23, of West Plains, Mo., wrote to his parents: "Should it come to it, I had rather give my life trying to help someone than to give my life looking down a gun barrel at them...
Urgency Disappeared. Colombia's Lleras Camargo found more fault with the southern end of the Alianza. "The feeling of urgency that dominated the Punta del Este meeting disappeared immediately after the documents were signed," he said. The governments-"all of them"-have shown a lack of interest and have abdicated the responsibility that they were expected to share. Thus, instead of a grand alliance of equals, the program has degenerated into a standard series of bilateral aid agreements between the U.S. and each individual country of Latin America...
...world he is the liberal spokesman of ecumenical solidarity, leading the march along what he has called the long road to Christian unity. Alberto Lleras Camargo, statesman, former President of Colombia. . .LL.D...