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Halfway around the world, another political kidnaping came to a tragic end. In Cordoba, Argentina last week, Montoneros leftist-Peronist terrorists abducted the honorary U.S. Consul, John P. Egan, 62, from his home. The terrorists demanded that four jailed comrades be released "alive and healthy" by 7 p.m. on Friday-or Egan, a retired Kaiser Industries executive, would be "executed." Both the U.S. embassy and Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes refused to negotiate with the kidnapers. Late Friday night, on a lonely dirt road outside Cordoba, Egan's body was found riddled with bullets and wrapped in a Montoneros...
...center of the battle was the palm-fringed city of Asmara, Eritrea's capital, which was rocked by mortar, bazooka and howitzer fire as rebel commandos attacked army and navy installations. One exchange caught a group of 30 Americans, including the local consul, in a social club; they gamely sang John Brown's Body and other traditional songs as tracer bullets arced overhead. A U.S. communications base was hit in another assault. Throughout the week, Ethiopian planes bombed and strafed guerrilla concentrations and mud-hut villages suspected of supporting the rebels. By week's end, according...
...juxtaposition of Daniel Ellsberg, William E. Colby, and Victory Marchetti all in the same week (together, incidentally, with Canada's Boston Consul General, whose visit was unreported), was largely fortuitous. Colby was tentatively scheduled two months ago although his actual appearance was in doubt until late in the previous week; Marchetti was obtained by a Nieman Fellow who knew him, knew Colby was coming, and asked Marchetti to speak some time before or after Colby; and Ellsberg was booked on the day before his talk when he called me to say he was in town and I then invited...
...spent Wednesday night shackled to the door again, but on Thursday the questioning was accompanied by only a little torture. And then came help. U.S. Consul Richard Brown in Recife was finally given permission to see me. My friends had alerted him to my disappearance. It took him three days to get Brazilian authorities to honor an international agreement granting foreigners the right to see diplomatic representatives of their country. On Friday Ambassador John H. Crimmins officially protested my treatment to the Brazilian Foreign Office in Brasilia. After five more days, Brown managed to get Colonel Meziat to provide...
John Fotopolous, the Greek consul in Boston, denies that the consulate would ever send information on the Hellenic Students Association back to the Greek government. "We are not involved in their affairs," he says. "We try to assist them in their studies...