Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guerrilla group signed a pact with the government last year and stepped back into civilian life. Former leaders Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez and Antonio Navarro Wolf now want to run for office in the country's March 15 municipal elections. Pizarro Leon-Gomez hopes to become mayor of Bogota; Navarro Wolf mayor of Cali. But they face a serious obstacle: impending trials for crimes that include the spectacular 1985 takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice and the 1988 kidnaping of former presidential candidate Alvaro Gomez Hurtado. Gomez was released unharmed eight weeks later...
...track suspected drug- smuggling aircraft. Though U.S. officials insist that Barco had privately approved the plan, the ill-timed disclosure aroused the Colombian press to dire warnings of a "yanqui blockade." The Bush Administration promptly backed down and assured Barco that no U.S. warships would be deployed until Bogota agrees...
...Bogota's El Tiempo reported that poor maintenance had caused two near crashes in the past two months, prompting indignant pilots to send a letter of protest to Avianca management. The pilots cited 37 failures of flight-control equipment on one plane alone between last October and December, said the paper...
...Long Island catastrophe, Flight 52, bound from Bogota via Medellin to New York City, smashed into a wooded hillside in the wealthy community of Cove Neck. The absence of fire or explosion on impact and the lack of fumes afterward led to speculation that the 23-year-old Boeing 707 had run out of fuel only moments before it was supposed to land at New York's Kennedy Airport...
...disaster's most poignant aspect was the number of children on board -- estimates ranged from seven to 15 -- who were being flown to the U.S. for adoption. Because Colombian courts recess from Dec. 15 until Jan. 15, there was a backlog of Americans in Bogota who had received permission to bring their adopted children home. The approvals came just in time for some to catch Flight 52. At least two of the children are known to have survived, but the fate of the rest remained unclear at week...