Word: colombia
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...gentle, ruddy-faced man of 53 with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria, dark red snakewood from British Guiana and his favorite lignum vitae from Jamaica. In his littered Greenwich Village studio he chips away at them with a caressing affection for the material, slowly turning out the figures that express his own sunny philosophy...
...Australia, Britain, Colombia, Cuba, France and Sweden. Iraq and the Soviet Union said it was all right as it stood...
...been pistol-whipped, jailed and shot at in the course of covering revolutions in ten-Latin American countries. During Costa Rica's 1948 revolt against its pro-Communist government, six Red goons worked Dubois over with rifle butts. A month later, while covering a revolution in Colombia, Dubois phoned a blow-by-blow story to the Trib from a room in Bogota's presidential palace while insurgents fought in the corridors. Later, to get his own and fellow newsmen's copy to a cable office, Dubois ran a gauntlet of machine-gun fire. "He's absolutely...
Last week, in his annual I.A.P.A. report on press freedom, Jules Dubois complained of a governmental stranglehold on the news in five countries besides the Dominican Republic: Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Colombia. "Not next year, or the year after, but some year," says Dubois, "the time may come when the association can say to a dictator or a would-be dictator: 'Stop! You've gone far'enough!'" But Dubois reports that even in countries where newspapers are basically free, even in Castillo Armas' Guatemala, attempts at suppression continue. The moment a free press fears...
Another problem which hampers the diplomatic corps is Washington's habit of moving them about every three years, oft-times at the worst possible moment. For example, the United States Ambassador to Sweden, John M. Cabot, will be transferred to Colombia this spring. Cabot is extremely popular in Sweden and, moreover, Sweden is now under the strongest Soviet pressure in years. By removing Cabot, the United States removes a prop from Sweden's stand against Russia and raises doubt in Swedish minds as to the sincerity and intelligence of United States support...