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...three countries) and then in principle (the U.S. signed the 1936 nonintervention agreement of Buenos Aires). Today the principle of nonintervention, far more than a weapon against out-of-date U.S. meddling, is a rule of law that must apply to all of the hemisphere's nations. As Colombian President Alberto Lleras Camargo (onetime head of the OAS) once said: "A group of democratic nations may destroy an antidemocratic government by coercion and intervention. But who is going to guarantee that a coalition of antidemocratic governments will not proceed in this identical form against a pure and democratic regime...
Following up its conviction of former Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla for abusing power and enriching himself in office (TIME, March 30), the Colombian Senate last week abolished all Rojas' political rights, all his titles and honors. As he signed a document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order...
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the ex-strongman who regarded his country as his own private cooky jar, finally got his just desert. By a vote of 62-4 and 65-1, the Colombian Senate convicted Rojas of "overstepping his authority" and of "using the office of President to increase, in an unlawful form, his assets and those of others." It was the first time a Colombian ex-President faced the music since 1867, when General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera was convicted of setting up a monopoly on the sale of salt...
Land & Experts. The work began in 1950 in answer to a request from the Colombian government to the well-endowed ($500 million) Rockefeller Foundation, headquartered in Manhattan: would it help find "ways to provide the people of Colombia with more and better food as economically as possible?" The foundation sent in experts, the Colombian government handed over top-grade land and the search started. At first Tibaitata concentrated on wheat and corn, has since branched into potatoes, beans, forage crops, barley, farm administration, pathology, entomology, animal husbandry...
...hunger fighters have already discovered seed strains that offer a vast improvement over what Colombian farmers have planted for years: barley that yields 37 bu. per acre instead of the usual 24, wheat that yields 56 bu. instead of 29 and matures three to four weeks earlier, thus allowing two crops yearly. Tibaitata's scientists are experimenting with a barley that brings 102 bu. per acre, a hybrid corn that yields as much...