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Unknown to Cadon, Flight 501 had a VIP aboard. Colombia's Foreign Minister Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala had been in Mexico, was on a tour of Latin American capitals to unify opposition to Castro's Cuban Communism. The Colombian government snapped off a demand for the immediate release of its foreign minister, said that any other action would be "an official act of hostility...
...High Colombian government officials are full of public praise for President Kennedy's Peace Corps, and private misgivings that the corps organizers may forget to explore all the angles. Said one: "I think that after your government gives the girls and boys an examination, we Colombians should give them another. The most important question for a norteamericano going into the backlands is: 'Are you a Roman Catholic?' In our rural society, the village priest commands both the body and soul of the peasants. I'm afraid for non-Catholics, however noble the U.S.'s purpose...
Successful Maneuvers. Last August Burke and his aides launched Operation Unitas, an unprecedented, four-month, South American antisub exercise. A U.S. task force centered around the sub Odax rendezvoused first with the Venezuelan and Colombian fleets in the Caribbean, then maneuvered with Ecuador's navy, turned south and linked up simultaneously with the Peruvian and Chilean navies. Finally, it conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that...
...Moscow." Yet once again, when an APRA-hatmg newspaper editor was murdered, the aristocracy threw out the coalition regime that APRA had helped elect (but in which it did not have a commanding voice) and forced the party back underground. Haya spent five years as a refugee in the Colombian embassy before he was allowed to leave the country...
Symptom of Ills. Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who wants to eradicate the Communist enclaves and push through roads and reform, has had little success so far. Neither the Colombian army, which fought well in Korea but has little taste for guerrilla warfare, nor the bureaucrats show much initiative...