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Drug Scare. The prison population explosion is worrying the State Department, which calls it "a very important question." In many areas, it is rapidly becoming the prime concern of American diplomats. In Rabat, U.S. Consul Joseph Cheevers is besieged by requests for such items as antiscorbutic vitamin C, soap and blankets from American inmates of Morocco's dank jails (40 to a room). At the same time, he is handling twice as many requests for information from worried parents in the U.S. as he was a year...
...cartoon in Argentina's Mercado magazine last week listed the prevailing "exchange rates" for kidnaped diplomats: "Eight guerrillas for one Japanese consul; eleven political prisoners for one ambassador; 15 terrorists for one general; twelve Maoists for a minister." The tactic of the diplomatic kidnaping, however, has aroused more alarm than amusement in chancelleries around the world. Last week two more potentially deadly incidents took place...
...Buenos Aires, Argentine terrorists grabbed a Paraguayan consul named Waldemar Sanchez. The consul had advertised his Mercedes-Benz sedan for sale, and noted that it carried diplomatic license plates. When two young men dropped by to see the car, Sanchez took them for a test drive-and wound up being taken for a ride. His captors demanded the release of two.fellow terrorists, but the Argentine government refused. The kidnapers thereupon threatened not only to kill Sanchez but also to "start executing all the managers of American companies." At week's end, well beyond the kidnapers' deadline, Sanchez...
...mostly students, seized U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick, but released him unharmed when, after 77 hours, the Brazilian government allowed 15 prisoners to escape. Within the past month, Latin American terrorists have set a record by kidnaping four diplomats. In addition to Crowley and Sanchez, these included the Japanese consul general in Brazil and a U.S. embassy attaché in Guatemala; both were released after the two governments agreed to the guerrillas' demands...
...lawful sovereign" in Rhodesia, and followed suit. Washington's undisguised snub precipitated a wholesale departure. Italy, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Austria and West Germany shut down; Switzerland wavered. Only South Africa and Portugal-both of which back Smith's regime-and Greece, which has an honorary consul there, were sure to remain...