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When a five-man Soviet trade delegation arrived in Colombia three weeks ago, Castroite guerrillas took the occasion to bomb a train and ambush an army patrol, killing 15 persons. In reprisal, President Carlos Lleras Restrepo jailed 200 Communist Party leaders, most of whom were uninvolved in the terrorism. The Russians did not blink an eye or utter a protest; they just pressed right ahead with discussions for expanding last year's $3,000,000 worth of trade between the two countries and setting up consular relations...
...accounts for 70% of all foreign exchange), and a 10% drop in world coffee prices in the past six months contributed to an 18% drop in the country's foreign exchange earnings. The economy-and the country-was about to grind to a halt. Then President Carlos Lleras Restrepo went on nationwide TV and announced that he had averted bankruptcy by arranging for a $200 million stand-by credit with the International Monetary Fund, AID and the World Bank...
...Tiro Fijo (Sure Shot), who in recent years has styled himself a Castroite guerrilla. Under former President Guillermo Leon Valencia, Colombia's anti-insurgency troopers won control of four of the country's five Communist redoubts in the high Andes. Colombia's new President, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, called for a maximum army effort to make sure that Sure Shot made no repeat performance...
Host was Colombia's newly inaugurated President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, who, with Frei, was joined by Venezuela's President Raúl Leoni, Ecuador's former President Galo Plaza Lasso, who substituted for Ecuador's Interim President Clemente Yerovi Indaburu, and Peru's former Premier Fernando Schwalb, who was filling in for President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Among the balls, banquets and other ceremonial gatherings, the five met to discuss mutual economic and industrial development and the problems of the ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled...
...Colombia, Economist Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 58, candidate of the country's faltering National Front coalition of liberals and conservatives, took office with one big strike against him. In the March elections, the Front won only 162 of Congress' 306 seats, far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and Lleras Restrepo's program of welfare and land reform will face an ob streperous opposition led by ex-Dictator (1953-57) Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. But Lleras Restrepo can always fall back on the 15-month-old state of siege declared by former President Guillermo Leon Valencia, empowering...