Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clad in green sweatsuits and clutching gym bags, a group of young men and women nonchalantly kicked a soccer ball outside the gates of the Dominican Republic's embassy in Bogota, Colombia. Inside the compound, Ambassador Diogenes Mallol was entertaining fellow members of the diplomatic corps in celebration of his country's independence day. Around noon, U.S. Ambassador Diego C. Asencio, 48, a Spanish-born career diplomat, said his farewells. Just as he was moving toward his armored Chrysler Imperial limousine, the soccer players pulled automatic weapons from their gym bags and blasted their way through the embassy...
...movies (Midnight Express and The Deer Hunter, for example) that were fascinating in their allegory: each portrayed American youth abroad, wholesome and handsome and lovable, yet in the grips of foreigners as evil as reptiles. This winter, Americans have been inclined to think that reality (whether in Tehran or Bogota) has confirmed the allegory. U.S. citizens are held hostage far from home; the dangerous and primitive outer world does not play by the rules, it seems. The Soviet Union rolls over Afghanistan with no more moral hesitation than an exterminator spraying pesticide...
...BOGOTA, Columbia--Government negotiators yesterday offered a deal believed to include safe conduct out of the country to terrorists holding U.S. Ambassador Diego Asencio and about two dozen other diplomats...