MRS GANDHI VISITS COLOMBIA.

Record ID: 588421

  • Title: MRS GANDHI VISITS COLOMBIA.
  • Date: 12th October 1968
  • Summary: 1. GV EXT..SIMON BOLIVAR'S HOUSE 0.05 2. CU GUARD OF HONOUR PAN TO MRS GANDHI & PARTY 0.13 3. CU MRS GANDHI PAST 0.16 4. LV PARTY TOWARDS STATUE 0.23 5. SV & CU STATUE 0.29 6. CU MRS GANDHI 0.30 7. GTV PARTY MOVE AWAY FROM STATUE 0.35 8. LV GATHERING IN KENNEDY CITY 0.37 9. GTV PEOPLE WAVING 0.40 10. SV PAN..MRS GANDHI IN MOTORCADE 0.50 11. SCU & CU CROWD 0.54 12. SV PRES. LLERAS AND MRS GANDHI 1.00 13. CU MRS GANDHI 1.01 14. GV SPECTATORS 1.03 15. SV MRS GANDHI RECEIVING FLOWERS 1.07 16. SV BAND 1.10 Initials PW/VS/PW/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th October 1968 13:00
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  • Location: BOGOTA & KENNEDY CITY, COLOMBIA
  • Country: Colombia
  • Reuters ID: LVABSHZU0I7C43TWU3SJ71HO5O92
  • Story Text: MRS INDIRA GANDHI, PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA, RECEIVED A WARM AND FRIENDLY WELCOME WHEN SHE VISITED COLOMBIA AS PART OF HER EXTENSIVE TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA.

    MRS GANDHI WAS GREETED BY COLOMBIA'S PRESIDENT CARLOS LLERAS, WHO TOOK HER TO VISIT THE BIRTHPLACE OF SIMON BOLIVAR, THE GREAT LIBERATOR OF SOUTH AMERICA.

    LASTER, SHE WAS TAKEN TO KENNEDY CITY, A SUBURB OF BOGOTA, BUILT FOR THE SLUM-DWELLERS OF THAT CAPITAL. IN A SHORT SPEECH TO THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS OF KENNEDY CITY, MRS GANDHI SAID THAT THEIRS WAS A MODEL COMMUNITY AND COULD BE THE ANSWER TO ELIMINATING SLUMS IN ALL THE BIG CITIES OF THE WORLD.
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