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...Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in a stolen minibus after the evangelical Wycliffe organization rejected a terrorist manifesto accusing it of being a CIA front and demanding that it pull out of the country...
...worked down the hall. We were blindfolded, stripped of our money and papers, and forced to sit on the floor with our hands clasped behind our heads. "The spies among you will be executed tonight," one guard ominously whispered in my ear. During an hour-long wait for a minibus from the prison, the guards took pleasure in playing with the safety catches of their weapons and murmuring the spot...
This call is referred to a cardio-resuscitation group, one of 34 medical teams in a substation adjoining central headquarters. Dr. Vladimir Serov, 33, two feldshers (paramedics) and a driver climb into a white minibus with the words Skoraya Meditsinskaya Pomoshch (Quick Medical Aid) stenciled on its side. It is equipped with stretchers, medications and dressings, an electrocardiograph machine, heart resuscitator and a respirator. The driver flicks on the flashing blue rooftop light and pulls out into traffic...
...Training Center that afternoon was like a festival. Thousands of civilians waited in high excitement as Doe's motorcade arrived. Workmen busily mounted five telephone poles in the ground alongside four that were already standing. In the meantime, the 13 condemned men were locked in a small white minibus 200 yds. away. The officers' tribunal had sentenced only eight of them to death, recommending life sentences for the other five. Nonetheless, the 17-member Peoples' Redemption Council, headed by Doe, decreed that all 13 should die. The council showed clemency, however, in sparing the life...
...trip is almost a parody of a see-the-stars'-homes guided tour through Beverly Hills. Visiting VIP'S may now enjoy government-sponsored minibus excursions through Soweto, the sprawling black ghetto on the southwestern rim of Johannesburg that is home to 1,500,000 urban blacks...