Word: medellin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Barbara Anne Eisenhower, 19, Ike's granddaughter; and Fernando Echavarria-Uribe, 25, a Colombian insurance executive whom she met on a 1966 visit to Medellin, Colombia; in a simple ceremony attended by some 150 guests, including Grandmother Mamie and Pat Nixon; in Valley Forge, Pa., thereby stealing a march on her brother David and Julie Nixon, whose wedding is planned for December...
Murderous banditry bloodied Colombia's countryside for two decades until an all-out effort by the Colombian army last year finally brought a semblance of order to the backlands. Now la violencia has broken out in a more subtle form in Colombia's cities. Last week in Medellin, a city of 700,000 northwest of Bogotá, Carlos Mejia, 9, son of one of the country's richest industrialists, was kidnaped as he walked to school; the kidnapers demanded $180,000 for his safe return. That same day in Bogotá, the wife of a prominent doctor...