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Protecting diplomats completely is impossible, but host countries are boosting guards and surveillance. In Washington, the White House police force is expanding from 250 to 850 to keep watch over Embassy Row as well as the White House. Argentina has proposed a hemispheric pact that would deny political asylum to any prisoners released under pressure from kidnapers. Mexico, however, insists that it will continue granting asylum to released prisoners on the grounds that this at least saves the lives of hostages...
Military repression is no novelty in South America. But in Peru, where press freedoms have gone relatively unchallenged for nearly 50 years, the latest muzzling came as a surprise. Following the same course that Dictator Juan Perón took in seizing Argentina's La Prensa in 1951, the junta declared that the two expropriated newspapers would be turned over to a staffers' union and cooperative. As La Prensa learned nearly two decades earlier, the move was not so liberal as it might have seemed. Not only must the union rely on junta funding, but the reporters...
...cartoon in Argentina's Mercado magazine last week listed the prevailing "exchange rates" for kidnaped diplomats: "Eight guerrillas for one Japanese consul; eleven political prisoners for one ambassador; 15 terrorists for one general; twelve Maoists for a minister." The tactic of the diplomatic kidnaping, however, has aroused more alarm than amusement in chancelleries around the world. Last week two more potentially deadly incidents took place...
...armed colonies." Nor is the patience of Latin American governments unlimited. During the Elbrick episode, one hardline Brazilian military man suggested that the 15 prisoners demanded as ransom by the rebels be taken to a public square, where one would be shot every hour until Elbrick was released. Argentina's decision to say no to the kidnapers in the Sanchez case may mark a turning point in the way Latin American governments respond to the new terror tactic...
...more skilled practitioners of the sexual shell game was Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish writer who spent much of his adult life in Argentina, totally unknown to the world. He died at 64 in France last year, after enjoying a muffled underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended...