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...sheer coincidence, four Americans-USIA officers Martin, 27, and Michael A. Kristula, 41; Bernard Rifkin, 52, labor adviser to the Agency for International Development; and Robert Fergerstrom, 26, a Peace Corps volunteer-were in the area to deliver a $15,000 check to finance two new schools. As they sat in the home of the Dutch manager of the Siglo Veinte mine, a twelve-ton Mercedes truck rumbled up, and out piled 60 miners. Waving Czech mausers and pistols, shouting "Gringo! Gringo!" they ourst into the house and hauled out the foreigners. By dawn, 17 hostages were prisoners in Siglo...
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