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Died. Efrain González, 29, Colombian bandit chieftain, one of the Andean country's most wanted men and leader of a gang credited with close to 250 murders in the past six years; by gunfire, in an attack on his suburban Bogotá hideout by 425 soldiers using tear gas, rifles, machine guns and a 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun, while thousands of civilians looked...
...institutions," said Lleras Restrepo. And sure enough, its institutions were growing shakier by the day. Toward week's end, university students protesting U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic went on a seven-hour rampage in Bogotá, slinging stones and Molotov cocktails, breaking windows in a U.S.-Colombian cultural center, and taking over two radio stations. When police finally restored order, more than 100 people were injured. Valencia promptly seized upon the riot as an excuse to declare a state of siege...
...treasurer, bank manager and a policeman before looting three stores and a bank. To the terrified townspeople, Tiro Fijo said that he wants to be known only by his real name and not by his nickname, because he is no longer a bandit but a Communist guerrilla fighting for Colombian liberation. At his side was an aide whom others in the band referred to as el cubano...
...underway, new terror struck nearby. Kidnapers seized Harold Eder, 61, one of Colombia's richest and most influential industrialists, from his ranch near Cali, beheaded Eder's police bodyguard, demanded 2,000,000 pesos (about $145,000) ransom, the highest sum in the sordid history of Colombian kidnaping...
...Bogotá, the list of kidnapings has reached the point where the army advises wealthy Colombians to "alter your daily routine, never discuss travel plans among strangers, don't go out alone." Nervous citizens can buy guns from the army to protect themselves; many men keep submachine guns at their side when they drive to work in the morning. In some cases the Communists have used kidnaping threats in an attempt to run both foreign and Colombian industrialists out of the country. Most of the businessmen have sent their families abroad and stayed on - with body guards beside them...