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...Colombian Connection A report by a Congressional committee stirred diplomatic consternation in Belfast and elsewhere after it named the I.R.A. as part of a global terror network based in Colombia. The report, compiled after a nine-month investigation, accused the I.R.A. of training Colombian guerrillas alongside Iranians, Cubans and possibly Basque separatists. Refusing an invitation to appear before the Committee, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said he was satisfied with the I.R.A.'s denial that it had sent anyone to train rebel groups in Colombia. "Irish Republicans pose no threat to U.S. national-security interests in Colombia," he added...
...ever-volatile situation in Colombia contrasted starkly with the comparatively quiet atmosphere of Cambridge. Santos describes his time at Harvard as “a special time in my life.” Besides serving as a meeting place for him and Uribe, Harvard “was fundamental to my intellectual development,” he says. “Everything I learned here was important.” He fondly remembers taking courses spanning topics from Latin American history to the history of jazz. “I wanted to increase my general knowledge of all subjects which...
...began with some cousin cuisine. Paul Gonzalez had taken his cousin Donna on a long trek through a remote part of Colombia. They had missed the day's meals and had only a jar of pickled vegetables and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label. So they repaired to hammocks strung up under the moonlight--and began a love story that has lasted 14 years and produced two children...
...Maldonado, Peru. They are the most muscular and tattooed individuals in recent history. Of course, they emerge as former members of the U.S. Air Force and the Marines. After drinking copious Cusqueñas, they divulge information regarding their work with the U.S. Geological Survey, mapping the topography of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Later, it occurs to me that operatives of the CIA often work in a three-person group with a native guide and a small plane. “Well,” I think, “that’s one lifestyle I might be convinced...
...reversed his opposition to the ruling, and was named Man of the Year by Morris Brown College, a predominantly black institution, in 1975. Talmadge later served on the Watergate investigative committee, only to be ousted from the Senate for misusing campaign funds. KILLED. ISAIAS DUARTE CANCINO 63, archbishop of Colombia, who was an inspiration to citizens mired in a brutal 38-year war between leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups that has killed 40,000 in the last decade, by two gunmen outside a church; in Cali. Working from the birthplace of Colombia's most powerful cocaine cartels, Cancino...