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off minutes earlier, attract-
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since peace talks with the
FARC collapsed on Feb. 20,
attacking power plants, reser
voirs and bridges. On Friday,
another car bomb exploded in
the town of Fuente de Oro,
injuring 13 people and damag
ing 20 businesses.
In Villavicencio on Sunday,
Mary Batio sat on a curbside,
mourning her 22-year-old
daughter, Diana Cristina Beltran,
who was killed in the attack
while out with friends.
“I want my baby back,”
Batio wailed. “She didn’t have
anything to do with anything.
Why did she have to lose her
young life?”
Leonor Castro, 71, said her
nephew saved her life by carry
ing her out of her bedroom
when the smaller device
exploded outside her home.
Minutes later the larger bomb
went off, destroying her bed
room and blowing the door
onto her bed.
The Colombian and
Uruguayan tennis teams were in
the city, 45 miles southeast of
Bogota, for a Davis cup match,
but no players were injured.
Colombian team captain Uriel
Oquendo said his team was in a
hotel in another part of the city.
Coiombia car bomb
An explosion in the
entertainment district of a
provincial capital Sunday, killed
at feast 10 people and wounded
more than 60.
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“Thank God, we were relax
ing far from the place of the
attack,” Oquendo said in a tele
phone interview. The final
matches began as scheduled
later Sunday.
Residents said they were
afraid the two car bombings,
both in Meta province, might
herald a new offensive targeting
civilians. The 38-year-old civil
war already claims some 3,500
lives every year.
.N. conference grapples
vith problems of the elderly
MADRID, Spain (AP) — The predictions are
nostcataclysmic: In 50 years, if trends contin-
, , one of every three people will be older than
'fr 13 W j'j, l'^ 1086 2 billion seniors would outnumber the
ood livens uedidT rld , syouths _
edict Mi • “I Even before that, gains in longevity could bring
allot 1 , is a time e economic crisis, experts warn. With
ause vie^\»l Wftepopu\^i on ’ s proportion of taxpaying workers
y aboutnational budgets could be overwhelmed
^ ' tying to provide retirement and
Mi benefits for the elderly.
“Bythe mid-2020s, virtually the
developed world will be one
Aigentina unless some serious
®s are made,” said Paul Hewitt
die Center for Strategic and
National Studies in Washington,
Mng to the economic woes the
M American country has suf-
din recent months.
Monday,
On
representatives
160 countries and intema-
1 organizations begin a five-
United Nations conference in
Madrid to
Pple with the challenges posed by the graying
"imanity.
pie United Nations says older populations
significantly change patterns of “savings,
; stment and consumption, labor markets, pen
's- taxation, health care, family composition
living arrangements, housing and migration.”
to the developing world, the pace of aging is
faster than in developed countries, giving the
poorest societies less time to cope.The ramifica
tions could be serious as the elderly become an
additional burden to the traditional scourges of
poverty and disease.
Delegates at the Second World Assembly on
Aging, the first was 20 years ago in Vienna,
Austria, will try to agree on an action plan for
addressing a host of aging-related issues: retire
ment age flexibility; living with
dependency; elderly benefits;
technology and the aging
process; death matters such as
euthanasia.
The meeting’s chairman,
Spanish Labor and Social
Affairs Minister Juan Carlos
Aparicio, said Wednesday that
“60 to 70 percent” of the plan
had already been agreed on in
preparatory negotiations.
Nevertheless, hundreds of
non-governmental organiza
tions, from the American Association of Retired
Persons to the Red Cross of Mongolia, are hold
ing their own meetings over the weekend to push
for firm commitments.
“We want to ensure there will be clear and
comprehensive solutions, not just a magnificent
closing ceremony and pledges that two or three
years later everybody has forgotten,” said Hector
Maravall of the Spanish trade union CCOO.
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We want to ensure
there will he clear
and comprehensive
solutions.
— Hector Maravall
Spanish trade union CCOO
NEWS IN BRIEF
[Venezuelan oil executives
dismissed by President
■CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo
l avez announced the dismissal Sunday of seven
•ecutives who have led month-long strikes and
f r °tests against government-appointed leadership
toe state-owned oil monopoly,
tywelve other executives have been sent into early
etlr ement, Chavez added. He warned that any other
torkers who continue leading protests will be fired,
decision is likely to exacerbate a conflict that
has affected production at South America’s largest
oil company. The country’s largest workers’ union
warned they might prolong a one-day nationwide,
general strike set for Tuesday in protest of the firings.
Fedecamaras, the country's largest business
association, said its members would join the
strike. It will be the second time in Chavez's three-
year-old presidency that union workers and busi
ness leaders joined to paralyze the country.
“Our patience in this conflict has been obvious,”
Chavez said in his weekly radio show. “We have
been soft. That has been our error.”
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