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...event, there is little time for politics. Entrance exams are stiff and scholarship pressures great. "If a student refuses to submit to our discipline," says Antonio Pinilla, rector of the Catholic-influenced University of Lima, "we expel him." At Catholic U. in Buenos Aires, students must attend at least 75% of the lectures-or get out. A student at Andrés Bello in Caracas must pass every subject. If he flunks one, he is allowed two makeup exams; failing these, he is through...
Home again in 1957, leading the battle against Army Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Lleras persuaded leather-tough Conservative Boss Laureano Gomez to form a coalition, and out of this alliance between historic foes came Colombia's unique National Front pact, under which both parties agreed to alternate the presidency for 16 years. Soon after, a coordinated popular uprising by Liberals and Conservatives swept Rojas out of office. The choice for President: Lleras Camargo, the only man on whom both strong-minded parties could agree...
...blight of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in 1955 sent Lleras back into Colombian politics. He plotted his revolution in Bogota's somber Jockey Club, where he brought the warring Liberals and Conservatives into a united front that eased Rojas out of office without a fight. Now midway through his four-year term, he has put across a belt-tightening stability program, cutting the foreign debt from $400 million to $170 million, holding the peso steady...
...women, Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo last week got an ominous warning from the Roman Catholic Church. It came in a pastoral letter like those the church directed against Argentina's Juan Peron, Venezuela's Marcos Perez Jimenez and Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla just before their downfalls. Signed by all six bishops of the Dominican Republic, the letter was a politely furious response to the imprisonment of 2,000 leading citizens packed off to La Victoria jail on the outskirts of Ciudad Trujillo and a concentration camp at Finca del Diablo, 20 miles north...
Bonsai's strategy is the same that he used effectively in 1956 as ambassador to Colombia to show his coolness toward then-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla: letting the snubs fall on a mere charge d'affaires. Just as Castro learned Bonsai's plans, a Washington News editorial reprinted in Havana drove home the message: "There is a point where patient tolerance becomes obsequious humility...