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...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...
...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...
With that dramatic outburst, the two-week siege lapsed back into a tense standoff. Negotiating for her fellow terrorists, the woman had just rejected a promising response by the Colombian government to the most sensitive guerrilla demand: the release of 311 accused terrorists, most of them M-19 members, from Colombian jails. The proposal: speeding up the trials and sentencing of more than 200 prisoners now held under military detention. The concession almost certainly would have meant early acquittal for some. Others would have been freed if their sentences matched time already spent in jail. Still other detainees would probably...
...plan was an ingenious way of releasing some prisoners without formally capitulating to the terrorists' demands or, technically at least, violating the Colombian constitution. The compromise scheme, drawn up by President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala after his ruling Liberal Party made a strong showing (54% of the vote) in nationwide municipal elections early last week, had been intended as a concession that could lead the way out of the deadlock. In fact, the government had already named a blue-ribbon panel of nine civilian jurists to oversee the legal procedures. The terrorists' rebuff thus came as a severe...
Each day the Colombian Red Cross showed up to deliver food and, ever so tidily, take away the garbage. Inside, life went on as "in a hotel," according to a Colombian government official. The Haitian Ambassador telephoned his girlfriend back in Port-au-Prince. The Egyptian Ambassador ordered, and received, kibbi, his favorite dish, in addition to the Koran. The papal nuncio, Monsignor Angelo Acerbi, celebrated Mass twice a day, using sacramental wine and a crucifix that the terrorists had allowed the Red Cross to deliver...