Word: guatemala
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...note relayed to the West German ambassador's residence in Guatemala City had been scribbled hastily by the ambassador himself. "Do not be afraid," wrote Count Karl von Spreti, 62, to his son Alessandro, 11. "My health is good, my heart is as stout as the Bühler Höhe [a well-known hill in Bavaria's Black Forest]. I am treated with respect and courtesy. I embrace you fondly. Papi." Last week, shortly after he wrote that note, the ambassador was murdered with a bullet behind the right...
...release of 22 Guatemalan political prisoners and $700,000 in exchange for the ambassador. The government refused to negotiate even after Bonn offered to pay the money. Five days after the kidnaping, Von Spreti was found dead, lying face down on the mud floor of an abandoned hut outside Guatemala City...
Amory, who said later that he felt as if he were "in a batting cage with three pitches coming in at once," then answered a steady stream of questions about issues ranging from C. I. A.-engineered coups in Guatemala and Iran to the covert C. I. A. funding of the National Student Association...
...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...
...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 numbers 2,000-far too many...