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...assist in maintaining Colombia's essential imports from the U.S." Colombia is suffering from a 3,000,000-bag coffee surplus. Without the dollars the coffee could bring in, the country can hardly keep up with its current U.S. commercial debts. The choice, outlined in April by Colombian Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Sanz de Santamaria: either the U.S. could grant a loan or Colombia would have to risk wrecking world coffee prices by dumping its surplus. In effect, the U.S. loan helped save the world coffee market...
What is it that looks like a coffee bean, tastes like a crisp pistachio nut and crackles when munched? As any Colombian gourmet knows, it is a toasted queen ant from Santander Department, and the very thought of the tasty tidbit is enough to make his mouth water...
...unearthly realm where its churning action chiefly occurs. Hungarian-born, Hollywood-based Producer Tors has roved from the Marshall Islands to the Caribbean in his own hunt for sunny weather, clear water, exotic fauna and flora. Last year he tied himself under a canoe, inspected coral reefs off the Colombian coast of South America while an Indian paddled. This week he is filming near Mexico's Coronado Islands. Soon he will scout the waters off Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti-as well as Samoa, where some World War I German cruisers are rumored to lie photogenically scuttled...
...efficient, effective Organization of American States, then was named president of Bogotá's University of the Andes. Two years ago he resigned the university job to lead the opposition to Dictator Rojas. Before his own acceptance last week, Lleras had ruefully spelled out the qualifications for a Colombian president. He must be, said Lleras, "a magician, prophet, redeemer, savior and pacifier who can transform a ruined republic into a prosperous one, can make the prices of the things we export rise and the value of the things we consume drop." As the May 4 election date drew near...
...Peace. Colombia's Conservatives and Liberals went to the elections to pick a Congress, the first after nine years of dictatorship and state of siege. They voted under a very special set of ground rules devised by Laureano Gómez and Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo. Because Colombian political strife runs readily to bloodshed, the parties agreed to split the seats in Congress exactly half and half...