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...Under Valencia, the military has mounted a highly successful campaign against backlands banditry (TIME, June 26). But that is about the only bright spot. The cost of living has zoomed 54% in eight months, unemployment is running 10%, trade and budget deficits remain dangerously high. Colombia's ambitious, ten-year development program-begun in 1958 under the administration of Alberto Lleras Camargo-is threatened by graft and inefficiency. Scandals have erupted everywhere, from the import license office to government housing projects. As the government sinks deeper into trouble, the country's Liberal-Conservative coalition is gradually fragmenting into...
...months. Japanese law is modeled on the German criminal code of 1907, which viewed kidnaping as a minor crime because it was so rare. But in postwar Japan, the soft law and a yen for yen have sharply increased what the French call "the American crime." Over a ten-year period, Japan recorded 4,728 kidnap cases, and the maximum penalty of ten years was given only 2% of the perpetrators...
...thinks Barbra Streisand is "the major star to come on the horizon in the last five years." So last week, after an arduous courtship of her and an all-out battle with rival suitors, the network was happy to announce a ten-year marriage contract...
...study, now beginning its second year, some volunteers will be given more freedom to buy their own lean meats. Next summer, the computers will render their verdicts on this and other variables in the volunteers' diets. Then the PHS will decide whether to launch a ten-year study of 100,000 men to settle, once and for all, the vexed questions of fats and the heart...
...varsity hockey team and the second highest scorer in Harvard hockey history, last week received the William J. Bingham Award, the University's highest athletic honor. Kinasewich, a Canadian, is the first foreign student and only the second hockey player to win the Bingham Award in its ten-year history...