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Marighella did not live long enough to see many of his ideas put into practice. Last year, after his followers kidnaped U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick, Brazilian police set up an elaborate ambush for Marighella. Two Dominican priests who had harbored Marighella on numerous occasions were arrested and forced to arrange a meeting with him. When Marighella's trusted bodyguard, Gaúcho, appeared to case the rendezvous site, he saw two couples necking in a Chevrolet, laborers languidly unloading materials at a construction site, bricklayers working on an unfinished building across the street. Gaúcho gave...
SEPTEMBER 1969: U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick was kidnaped in Rio de Janeiro and exchanged for 15 political prisoners who were flown to Mexico...
...current phenomenon dates from the attempted kidnaping of John Gordon Mein, the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, in 1968; Mein tried to escape and was killed, with four bullets in the back and one in the head. Last year Brazilian guerrillas, 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 attach...
...Toting Guards. "Is this the new terror wave of the future?" a Mexican newspaper recently asked. Political kidnaping, like airplane hijacking, may prove almost impossible to prevent. Security has been tightened at most embassies throughout Latin America. Elbrick is now followed everywhere by a carload of gun-toting police. The entrance to the U.S. embassy in Guatemala City has been outfitted with a peephole door and closed-circuit TV. Brazilian police guard the residence of every ambassador in Rio de Janeiro, but first secretaries, naval attachés and the like must fend for themselves. Rio's diplomatic community...
...with kidnapers, but some U.S. diplomats take a more militant line. "If we don't declare a no-ransom policy," says one Foreign Service officer, "diplomats will withdraw until they and their families live in armed colonies." Nor is the patience of Latin American governments unlimited. During the Elbrick episode, one hardline Brazilian military man suggested that the 15 prisoners demanded as ransom by the rebels be taken to a public square, where one would be shot every hour until Elbrick was released. Argentina's decision to say no to the kidnapers in the Sanchez case may mark...