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...latter-day Spanish conquistador Antonio de Berrio, Trinidad was a staging point for futile Orinoco expeditions in search of El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. To Berrio's English rival, Sir Walter Raleigh, Trinidad was to be the beginning of a South American empire, where Indians and true-born Englishmen would unite to destroy the power of Spain. In his excessively romantic chronicle, The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, Raleigh describes an Arcadia whose wealth and spaciousness would give new dimension to Renaissance European...
...routine entry in the Truro police blotter led to the first discovery. Checking out a resident's complaint, Police Chief Harold Berrio found an abandoned Volkswagen parked in a lonely wooded area known locally as a lovers' lane. On the windshield was a handwritten note explaining that the driver had run out of gas and would return. A few days later, the Teletype clattered the story of the missing girls and gave the registration number of their car; it matched the number that Berrio had dutifully recorded. The car belonged to Patricia Walsh, but when Truro police went...
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Playing without the services of center Joe Berrio, who was at a Republican rally, the CRIMSON found it hard to provide adequate protection for quarterback Dave Nevins. But Nevins, rolling out of the pocket on numerous occasions, was able to complete 23 of 25 passes for two touchdowns...
Fighting has been reported recently in other areas around Riosucio, Puerto Berrio, and near Cali, but most of rural, mountainous Colombia has felt such battling at one time or another since 1949. The cities have escaped because big army garrisons control them...