Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coast of the U.S. Canal Zone. Just after sunup, a company of Brazilian paratroopers tumbled out of U.S. Air Force turboprop transports over the zone after a 500-mile flight from Bogotá, Colombia. Next came 1,175 men of the crack U.S. 82nd Airborne and a planeload of Colombian soldiers. Chilean and Peruvian F-80 jets joined U.S. F-100 Super Sabres to provide air support. For the first time, in "Exercise Banyan Tree II," Latin nations were joining the U.S. in a peacetime maneuver...
...Mejia's main mission; she spends her entire $55.50 monthly salary for building materials. For 41 years she has gone on this way, but help is due. Soon to be launched: a new government school-building campaign patterned after hers, to provide a primary-school education for all Colombian children by 1970. Builder Mejia will not lay down her tools; she has plans for 16 more schools, and aims to go on living as one Bogotá nun last week admiringly described her-"a true religious...