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McGann is leaving to take a permanent post as assistant professor of History at the University of Texas. He taught all the History Department's courses on Latin America: Social Sciences 133, An Introduction to Latin American Civilization; History 177, History of Colombia and Venezuela, and History 178, History of Colombia in alternating years; and a graduate seminar in Latin American History...
...barbaric." Nixon deplored the "violent and vocal minority that denied freedom of expression, without which no institution of learning deserves the word 'great.'" In Ecuador, where he went next, university students, traditionally anti-Peruvian, elaborately pointed out to Nixon that Ecuadorian manners are better. This week in Colombia, a crowd cheered him at the airport, but a Communist-led squad of students burned his picture outside his hotel...
Diehard military men, bent on short-circuiting the sure election of Civilian Alberto Lleras Camargo as bipartisan President of Colombia, brazenly kidnaped five top Colombians last week. The victims: four of the five joint presidents who make up the military junta that dumped Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May-and Candidate Lleras himself...
Lleras' qualifications for the job are already on record. An able, respected journalist, he became Colombia's "boy wonder" Minister of the Interior (Premier) at 29, stepped up to the presidency ten years later. He served as head of the creaky old Pan American Union after World War II, created the efficient, effective Organization of American States, then was named president of Bogotá's University of the Andes. Two years ago he resigned the university job to lead the opposition to Dictator Rojas. Before his own acceptance last week, Lleras had ruefully spelled out the qualifications...
Chile's Linea Aérea Nacional, for example, is subsidized by the government, does a sedate business at I.A.T.A. rates by ap pealing to national pride. Others offer special services, such as the direct European flights of Panair do Brasil, Cubana Air lines and Colombia's 38-year-old Avianca...