Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Archbishop Luis Concha Córdoba, 69, of Bogotá, Colombia, was born to a powerful and cultured family (his father was President of Colombia from 1914 to 1918). A shy, modest man, Archbishop Concha Córdoba is recognized to be an able administrator with a forward-looking viewpoint that makes him trusted by the Liberals-Colombia's majority political party, which favors separation of church and state...
...Advocate last Monday named A. Melnick '62, of Quincy House and , its President. Elected head of the literary board, was Richard A. Rand '63, of Eliot House and Barbara, Cal.; Business Manager, Urrutia '63, of Quincy House and , Colombia; Treasurer, John S. '62, of Winthrop House and and Secretary, Michael P. Cain '63, Adams House and Kingston...
...Communist parties that have not yet come to power, or hold it only shakily, and are not under direct and complete Moscow discipline. The most wholehearted approval of Liu's blast reportedly came from the leaders of none-too-sizeable Communist parties in four Latin American countries-Venezuela, Colombia, Uruguay and Chile-as well as from Albania, Indonesia and North Korea. Some delegations apparently split-e.g., Argentina's intellectual Communist wing leaned to Liu, while its old-line trade unionists backed Moscow. At least one delegation played it down the middle: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht...
...Colombia. President Alberto Lleras Camargo lacks sufficiently assertive leadership to stamp out backlands bloodshed that has stopped development and killed 300,000 in the past twelve years...
Symptom of Ills. Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who wants to eradicate the Communist enclaves and push through roads and reform, has had little success so far. Neither the Colombian army, which fought well in Korea but has little taste for guerrilla warfare, nor the bureaucrats show much initiative...