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...government had taken eight weeks to lay its case, with an endless parade of evidence that Rojas in office had acquired cash, cattle, and "one-thousandth of all the vast land area of Colombia." Nothing was forgotten-not even a 1936 army fitness report on Major Rojas: "His business instincts carry him to the point of sordidness. Temperament: teetotaler. Conduct: a ladies...
Last week the Senate decided that it had heard enough. In his 40th hour on the stand, the Senate voted by two-thirds majority to cut him off. Declaring angrily that "this is the shame of Colombia when a man can't defend himself," Rojas clamped on his hat and left. Two days later, the verdict was read to the empty yellow chair reserved for the defendant. Next week the sentence will be handed down. Maximum penalty from the Senate: loss of political rights, e.g., the right to vote, and his pensions as former general and President. Upon review...
...five, and the percentage of their export income earned by coffee: Brazil 65%, Colombia 84%, Mexico 16%, El Salvador 88%, Guatemala...
...Colombia, also hit by an epidemic, issued a similar call, got 90,000 children immunized. The schedule: three doses spaced three weeks apart. In Medellin doctors are trying a three-in-one vaccine combination for the newborn, will wait to see how it works before extending the one-dose method to older children...
...scooters 10,000 miles from Buenos Aires to New York (although last week the scooter manufacturer was being sticky about free samples), and it is possible that they will meet Fellow Scholar Brian Moser heading in the opposite direction. He plans to spend a year riding a horse from Colombia to the wind-lashed Tierra del Fuego, near the southern tip of the continent. As he limbers up, another Cambridge group far off in the Belgian Congo will be busy at their study of nematode worms...