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...almost three years Colombia's silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez has walked some of the steepest political cliffs in Latin America. Not once have his judgment, his courage and his silken poise failed him. A Conservative who reached the presidency because of a split in the Liberal Party, he has had to govern with a Liberal majority in the Congress and with a coalition cabinet. Ospina brushed off diehard Conservative pressure to crush the opposition by high-handed use of his powers. Last year, when enraged followers of assassinated Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan sacked...
...pavement on Bogotá's Carrera Séptima, dead of an assassin's bullets. The death of Liberal Firebrand Gaitán touched off the bloody riots that Colombians now call el bogotanazo. To forestall possible trouble on the April 9 anniversary, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez forbade mass meetings that day. Liberal leaders promptly called the faithful to memorial services on April...
...Conservative head of a coalition government made up mostly of Liberals, good grey President Mariano Ospina Pérez had more than personal reasons to want the violence stopped. To keep the epidemic from spreading into Bogotá, Ospina last week banned all public meetings from April 8 to 18. That took care of the first anniversary of the assassination of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (TIME, April 19), an occasion which some Liberals had planned to exploit to its riotous limit. Then Ospina summoned the bosses of both major parties to see what could...
...President Ospina was more worried about the state of his nation than the chances of his party. While the parties' jefes (leaders) averted their eyes, he sternly gave them an ultimatum: unless they took it upon themselves to quiet things down, the government would declare a state of siege-which could mean a postponement of the June election...
...stories are highly unsatisfactory to reporters who want to write their own copy. To try to rectify the situation, the Chicago Tribune's strongwilled Jules Dubois "took his life in his hands" and barged across the street to the palace amid the rifle fire, demanding to see President Ospina about the communications blackout. He failed to see Ospina, but he did return with the news that dispatches would be accepted-subject to censorship...