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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...
...many underdeveloped countries, child labor is not looked upon as something unnatural or illegal. After spending a year in Bogota, Colombia, I grew accustomed to seeing young children, ages five to 15, roaming the streets, begging and stealing. A working child is seen as a step up from a young thief in a country that lacks the extensive welfare system we have here...
When agents began to question Gruenewald, he decided it would be prudent not to answer. Instead, he booked airline flights to Bogota, Manila, Tokyo, Taiwan, anywhere far from Queens. Learning of this, FBI agents decided they could wait no longer. They seized Sepe, whose beeping radio made his T-bird easy to follow, and they also grabbed Gruenewald and Werner. The good listener was charged as a material witness. The FBI hopes that his detention will lead gang members to feel that someone who knows a lot is telling all, thus causing even more falling out among the thieves...