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...visit to a ranch, Colombia's cattle-raising President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla enthusiastically admired his host's prize bulls, offered to buy one. "Your Excellency," said the rancher, "I cannot accept money from the President. I will give you a bull as a gift." Replied Rojas, squaring his shoulders: "As President, I cannot accept a gift...
Colombians tell this joke, and several variations of it, to sharpen the point that, as President, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla has done very well for himself. Before taking power, Lieut. General Rojas lived in a modest rented house. In three years he has become a multimillionaire, the nation's No. 1 cattleman. As of last week, Rojas owned at least nine ranches and tens of thousands of cattle, all branded "13," the lucky date in June 1953 when he brought off a swift military coup and began hurrying along the highroad to wealth. Rojas has a fenced-off market...
Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last week ceremoniously founded a Third Force political movement for Colombia, the only country in South America that has preserved until now the once-standard two-party system. As Rojas explained it, the Third Force will make no pitch for support from the "odious politicians" and the "oligarchs" of the historic Liberal and Conservative Parties. Rather it will stand, like the old Peronista Party in Argentina, on two legs: labor and the army...
Double Take. In Rome, police looked for the thief who drove off in Gustavo Zontini's car when he parked it outside the station house to report that someone had stolen his groceries from the back seat...
...gates of San Pedro jail in La Paz creaked open, and 300 political prisoners jostled their way out into the darkness, some carrying little violins and chess sets that they had carved with penknives during confinements of as long as three years. The most notable among the liberated men: Gustavo Stumpf, tall, blond leader of the right-wing Socialist Falange, and Guillermo Lora, bearded chief of the Trotskyite Revolutionary Workers Party...