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Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the story, taught a writing course at Yale University and English and French at a St. Louis prep school. Education Reporter-Researcher Jeanne-Marie North taught English in Medellin, Colombia, and Spanish at a small college in Illinois. Education Writer Kenneth Pierce was a lecturer in humanities at the University of Chicago for three years. "In those days I was torn between teaching and journalism," he says. "I would expound on Aristotle's Poetics in the morning and interview vice-squad detectives as a LIFE reporter in the afternoon." Civia Tamarkin of TIME...
...Mary Hemingway Award for best magazine reporting from abroad, for their work on last year's cover story "The Colombian Connection: Billions in Pot and Coke." Neff interviewed drug enforcement officials in New York, Miami and Bogotá, and surveyed by small plane the clandestine airstrips and marijuana plantations of Colombia's remote Guajira province. "We got shot at when we flew too low," says Neff. "They probably thought we were hijackers after their crop." Isaacson, who wrote the story, haunted seedy cafes in New York City's Jackson Heights to talk with distributors at the other end of the "Colombian...
...white Cubana Airlines jet roared off the runway of Bogotá's El Dorado Airport Sunday morning for an unscheduled flight to Havana. Among the passengers were twelve diplomatic hostages, including U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Diego Asencio, and 15 armed members of the so-called M-19 guerrilla group. Four other diplomats and two Colombian civilians had been allowed to leave the plane minutes before takeoff; the remaining hostages were to be liberated upon arrival in Cuba, where President Fidel Castro had offered sanctuary to the terrorists. Thus ended the 61-day siege at the Dominican Republic embassy...
...readmitted or would be beaten up by the pro-regime bullyboys who waited just outside. Meanwhile, Peruvian officials, pleading that they could not possibly accommodate all the refugees, called an emergency meeting of the Andean pact nations. At week's end all five members -Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru-as well as several other countries offered to take in the refugees. The U.S., which has admitted 800,000 Cubans since Castro came to power in 1959, will accept a "fair share of the refugees," said a State Department spokesman...
When Colombian Photographer Jorge Guzmán, 52, was hired by the Dominican Republic's embassy in Bogotá, his assignment was to shoot publicity photos of top-ranking diplomats partying on Dominican Independence Day, Feb. 27. The reception, it turned out, was stormed by terrorists belonging to Colombia's M-19 guerrilla organization, who seized 56 guests as hostages, including 14 ambassadorsand one hapless photographer. Since then Guzmán has kept busy recording the surprisingly cheerful activities during the captives' five-week ordeal. Last week guerrillas released six more of the "non-diplomats...