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...lifeblood of the economy, producing plenty of cash. But lately world surpluses have depressed demand, and prices have tumbled with unhappy results. Although the bank did not specify them, there are abundant examples to prove its point. The 11?-per-lb. drop in coffee prices in 1957 cost Colombia $25 million-more than its annual education budget. In 1958, when Russia dumped tin, Bolivia's quota was cut 31% by the International Tin Council; Bolivia lost $20 million, almost canceling...
...foolish that government officials in Colombia are thinking of questions for the Peace Corps [June...
...sharp decline. Though everyone recognized the danger of Castro's Communist Cuba, the bearded dictator loomed so large across the Caribbean that no one was willing to join in strong, concerted action against him. The one immediate hope, reported Stevenson, was a mild plan, advanced by Colombia, for a call to Castro to renounce his ties to Soviet Russia. If he refuses, the Organization of American States might then read him out of the hemisphere's family of nations...
Last week Peace Corps headquarters in Washington named the first 27 selected Peace Corpsmen, some to go to South America's Colombia and others to Africa's Tanganyika. On their records and aspirations, it appeared that they might do the U.S. more good than harm in their efforts to aid the world's underdeveloped countries. Among them...
...when Vaino was ten. A political science student at San Diego State with only average grades, Hoffren had to work 25 hours a week as a drapery salesman to stay in school. But his two years' experience in U.S. poultry farming will be helpful in Colombia, and so will his dedication to a cause: "I was only a child, but I clearly remember my first impression of Communism-the horribly emaciated Finnish prisoners returning from the Russian prison camps...