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When the outdoor Central Market in downtown Montevideo opened one Sunday earlier this month, two nurses dressed in crisp white uniforms and carrying medical kits arrived with the first shoppers. The nurses installed themselves behind a table and proceeded to take the blood pressure of all shoppers who desired a free test. At the same time, squads of teen-agers fanned out to the beaches and rundown sections of the city and began cleaning up garbage and debris. "This is how the Frente Amplio will govern," proclaimed pamphlets distributed by the young people...
...break was executed with all the attention to detail and derring-do of a commando raid. Early one evening last week, two well-dressed young men called at the home of Billy Rial Castillo, 30, a Mormon missionary who lives across the street from Montevideo's Punta Carreta federal prison. "We are Tupamaros," said the men as they pulled out pistols and identified themselves as members of the urban guerrilla group that has served as a model for terrorists in many of the world's major cities. "We need this house for an operation." The operation...
...wife paid them some $250,000, which she collected during a fund-raising tour of Brazil. Last week the Tupamaros surrendered another of their victims-without charge. After seven months in the Tupamaros' "people's prison," Dr. Claude Fly, 65, an American agronomist, was left outside a Montevideo hospital, his eyes taped over and two electrocardiograms at his side, along with a clinical report indicating that he had suffered a heart attack eight days earlier...
...first political kidnaping of 1971 was pulled off one morning last week with a panache born of practice. As a street vendor in the Old City of Montevideo reached into the pile of lettuce on his pushcart and pulled out a machine gun, four cars blocked the route of a black Daimler sedan. Out jumped a dozen men, who seized and clubbed two bodyguards and a chauffeur, and drove off triumphantly in the Daimler with their latest captive-and their biggest prey to date: British Ambassador to Uruguay Geoffrey Jackson...
...week's end, the Tupamaros, who have demanded $1,000,000 from Senhora Gomide for her husband's release, had not announced their ransom terms for Jackson. Whatever they ask might prove academic in any case. The British have considerable influence in Montevideo because they have long been the largest customer for Uruguayan meat, even though British imports dropped recently following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. But President Pacheco declared last August that he would not negotiate with terrorists under any circumstances, and he is expected to stick to his position...