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...case of Bellandi v. Bishop Fiordelli exposes the age-old intolerance of the Catholic Church. How much longer will people realize that there is no more freedom for dissenters behind the scarlet curtain (Italy, Spain, Colombia, etc.) than there is behind the Iron Curtain...
...Laureano Gómez rode a wheelchair to the polls in Colombia last week-and rode away from the election a revitalized political strongman. Less than five years ago, Rightist Gómez was ousted by military coup from power as a hated dictator; only six months ago he returned from banishment in Spain. But when he put his leadership of the Conservative Party into the balance against the party's other factions in the voting, the strong-willed ex-dictator, now 69 and weakened by a series of four heart attacks, easily won. "He is," Colombians explained with...
Fifty-Fifty for Peace. Colombia's Conservatives and Liberals went to the elections to pick a Congress, the first after nine years of dictatorship and state of siege. They voted under a very special set of ground rules devised by Laureano Gómez and Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo. Because Colombian political strife runs readily to bloodshed, the parties agreed to split the seats in Congress exactly half and half...
Conservative voters chose among three slates of Conservative candidates; the Liberals had an official slate plus some splinter candidates. To abet this peacekeeping measure, the ruling military junta firmly banned the sale of liquor for three days, brought out tanks and troops in battle dress. Colombia counted it a historically peaceful poll. Joked a member of the junta: "Maybe we ought to have an election every Sunday...
...current concert tour of Latin America, Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein arrived in Cali, Colombia, irately plopped himself on the customs house floor to protest slow processing of his papers...