When Conservatives nominated him for President last March, Millionaire Businessman Mariano Ospina Perez moved from his Norman castle in Bogota to a modest, two-story bungalow near by. Last week he prepared to move again. His address after Aug. 7:Palacio Presidencial. Elected when two candidates split the Liberal vote,* Ospina Perez would be Colombia's first Conservative President in 16 years.
* Results (with only 29 villages unreported): Ospina Perez, 523,523; Turbay (official Liberal), 401,121; Gaitan (independent Liberal), 332,563.
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