Word: marsella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...village elders of Marsella, 6,300 feet up in Colombia's Cauca Valley, weighed the arguments and gave consent -yes, it would be a good idea to give the district's youngsters inoculations against whooping cough and diphtheria. Thereupon, the traveling "sanitary educator," Roberto Agudelo Valencia, 32, jumped into his jeep, switched on the public-address system and drove around announcing a movie in the village square...
Long Knives. Last week hill farmers (growers of coffee, sugar and corn) and their wives crowded into Marsella, taking their preschool children for inoculations. All wore their Sunday best, the women in bright yellow, green or blue rayon dresses with black shawls, most of them in sneakers instead of sandals, and the men in white capes or ponchos and carrying long, narrow-bladed machetes...
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