Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Laureano Gómez, a harsh, angry, forbidding man, ruled.Colombia (pop.: 12,000,000) with a will so stern that other men instinctively cringed and obeyed him. More than any other Colombian of this century, he dominated his country's life. But one afternoon last week, ten of the Colombian army's tanks clanked up and took positions around his modest suburban house, and then-simply, surprisingly-Laureano Gómez, 64, slid like a wilted leaf down history's drainpipe...
...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...
...will bring the take up to about $22,800 for each fight. In his twelve years in the bull ring he has made a little under $2,000,000, and he has salted a lot of it away-some of it in Spanish hunting lodges and preserves, some in Colombian and Brazilian coffee investments, some in the National City Bank of New York...
...During World War II, having temporarily laid aside his editorial responsibilities to serve as Colombia's President, El Tiempo's Santos ranged his country at the side of the U.S. His newspaper, printing not only first-rate world news but daily dispatches from correspondents in scores of Colombian cities, became a national newspaper, read from the Caribbean coast to the borders of Ecuador. El Tiempo was Liberal, independent and peace-minded. As such, it was and is a mortal threat to Colombia's little clique of ruling Conservative extremists, who hold power under a 33-month...
Hope rose last week for a truce in Colombia's bitter religious strife. A Colombian Catholic, José Maria Chaves, 29, now teaching at Queens College, New York, and worried about anti-Protestant violence in his homeland, suggested a formula for peace. Its gist: Protestants should agree to a missionary quota, stop publicizing persecution unless new attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and priests. The Roman Catholic Church and the pro-Catholic government should agree to denounce and punish anti-Protestant assaults, guarantee freedom of worship...