Word: eder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERBERT J. EDER, D.D.S. Detroit
President Guillermo León Valencia denounced the Inza raid as "violence financed from international fields," sent 1,000 anti-guerrilla troopers chasing after the killers. Even as the man hunt was 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...
Many observers blamed the job on Tiro Fijo, though the army somewhat lamely insisted it was the work of a local smalltime bandit. President Valencia sent 3,000 more troops into the area, but at week's end Eder was still captive and Tiro Fijo still free. Nervous Colombians feared that their torn country was headed for a new era of Communist-inspired violence and that the government was unable to do much about...
Sugar, Anyone? For an opener Castro sought out the New York Times, which shares with the Associated Press the distinction of operating the only U.S. news bureaus in Havana. In 18 hours of talk, Castro laid it on thick for Times Correspondent Richard Eder-and the Times, in its characteristic fashion, gave Castro its front page for a forum. The bearded Cuban talked about reconciliation with the U.S., smoothly suggested that now was the time to normalize trade relations-meaning his lost sugar sales-and mused about the possibility of resuming diplomatic relations. He even admitted that he had supplied...