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...invited to the Montreal Expos major league camp. Stenhouse was impressing the Expos brass until a pitch hit him in the forearm last week. The injury will sideline him for six weeks... LARRY BROWN '79 continues to pitch in the Houston Astros system. After a fine season in the Colombian Winter League. Brown is slated to play for Houston's AA affiliate in Columbus, Georgia, this summer. He would probably be at the AAA level in most other organizations, but the pitching-rich Astros have a full staff at their Pacific Coast League club in Tucson...After a year with...
DIED. Chester Bitterman, 28, Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in a stolen minibus after the evangelical Wycliffe organization rejected a terrorist manifesto accusing it of being a CIA front and demanding that it pull out of the country...
After his junior year, Yntema took time off to participate in an exchange program that sent him to Medellin, Colombia. During his three years there he taught English and helped coach the national team but gave up competitive swimming himself. An anthropology major at Harvard, Yntema saw his Colombian trip as a chance to pick up another language and culture first hand. "I had been to other places before," he said, "but never long enough to really understand them. I wanted to understand a foreign country in a formal...
From an informant, U.S. Customs Service officials had learned that as much as four tons of high-grade Colombian marijuana was due to arrive that night aboard the 48-ft. trimaran Two-Too Much and would be sent ashore in smaller boats. Elaborate plans were laid to catch the smugglers in the act. Planes of the Customs Service were to circle overhead, shining powerful spotlights on the scene below. Patrol boats would be cruising near each of the three suspected drug transfer sites. Hidden on shore would be heavily armed local, state and federal officers...
Today the word "Miami" is always linked to bad news--a report on racial tensions, drug abuse, or an ongoing street war between Cuban and Colombian smugglers. Miami is more prosperous than ever, but those who live there know it is a decadent prosperity, that of a civilization that has lost its way and can find security only in the worship of gold. It is as if Miamians were playing the final scene of an epic morality play in which, led astray by egocentrism, complacency, and boundless greed, those who dreamed of Miami as the tropical Zion destroyed the dream...