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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...
...Latin America, where it seems Correspondent Bernard Diederich has been spending much of the past few months waving to diplomatic acquaintances imprisoned in one foreign embassy or another. "It has reached an epidemic stage," Diederich cabled from Bogotá, Colombia, where he was covering the seizure of the Dominican Republic's embassy. "In El Salvador, I stood vigil outside the French, Venezuelan, Costa Rican, Panamanian and Spanish embassies. I reported on the burning of the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City. Once it was skyjacking. Now it's the seizure of a foreign embassy, that sacrosanct piece of land...
...Bogotá, walk-on-eggs negotiations between the Colombian government and leftist guerrillas holding diplomatic hostages at the embassy of the Dominican Republic produced the release last week of another prisoner. Several other envoys were among the hostages still being held at gun point inside the building...
...diplomatic theater of the absurd, nothing could quite compare with the continuing siege in Colombia. The stage was the broad Avenida de Carrera in central Bogotá, cordoned off around the three-story embassy of the Dominican Republic; the handmade red-white-and-blue flag flying outside the building was that of a Colombian revolutionary group called M-19, for April 19 Movement. More than a dozen of their masked and armed guerrillas, including at least four women, remained in full control of the compound they seized almost two weeks ago in a gunfight during an Independence Day reception given...