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...Maurice T. Obregon '43, rector (president) of the University of the Andes, of Bogota, Colombia...
Politics by terrorism is not confined to Tehran or Bogota. Last week, just one day before Puerto Rico's Democratic primary and three days before Illinois's general primary, two armed bands claiming to belong to the Puerto Rican nationalist F.A.L.N. attacked Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters in Chicago and George Bush's office in New York City, seizing hostages in both places. The F.A.L.N. (for Fuerzas Armadas de Liberatión National) has claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in major U.S. cities in the past six years and obviously wants to make Puerto Rico...
...defiant rebuff prolongs the siege in Bogota...
...Liberty for all our compañeros who have been tortured and are being judged!" The small woman was shouting angrily as she emerged from the panel truck outside the Dominican embassy in Bogota, which has served as a venue for negotiations between the Colombian government and the terrorists. "It is our final word! We are holding firm; our mission is to win or die!" Then the guerrilla, wearing jeans and a hood over her face, flashed a V-for-victory sign at the police and press clustered outside the embassy. With a defiant turn of heel, she strode back...
...Diary, $14.95, to be published next month by Burt Franklin & Co.) is remarkable for the interplay it creates between that view and the delicate Japanese-American minuet at the camp. In some ways, the book also sheds light on the ordeals of today's hostages in Tehran and Bogota...