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...greatest collection of such pre-Hispanic gold as survived the ravages of conquistador and tomb robber belongs to Bogotá's Museo del Oro. In an effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations...
...hammered out into familiar American mythology. It is a stock world of the Depression South; of country criminals who are romantic robin hoods, whether in moonshining or bank robbing; of green country just getting used to the presence of black topped roads and big new cars and cops and robber chases. It is a world which Bonnie and Clyde made famous, and Thieves often seems to lean too heavily on that earlier film, in scenes like the final, rather improbable shoot out at a motor court when the police fill the small frame cottage where the hero is holed...
...stunned her family and friends by announcing that she had renounced them, joined her abductors, and adopted the name Tania, after the German-Argentine mistress of Latin American Revolutionary Che Guevara. Whether through conversion or coercion, she materialized last week in the role of a foul-mouthed bank robber. In the bewilderment shared by all who have followed the case, her anguished father Randolph A. Hearst exclaimed: "It's terrible! Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child. Now there's a picture of her in a bank with a gun in her hand...
...Patty has been killed, and the bank robber was an impostor. There is no evidence to support this dire supposition. It arose apparently because the bank photographs released by the FBI and published in the press are slightly out of focus, making it hard to identify her positively. But the FBI had access to all the bank photographs, and it is certain that the woman was Patty?a conclusion accepted by her parents...
...council's release of Lennon's 17-page statement last week touched off new demands for a full parliamentary inquiry into British counterterrorist methods. A month ago, Kenneth Littlejohn, 32, a convicted bank robber, escaped from Dublin's Mountjoy prison. He set off a public clamor by claiming in a series of interviews that he had been hired by British intelligence to infiltrate the I.R.A. and stir up trouble in the Irish Republic, thereby forcing Dublin to crack down on terrorist sanctuaries. Littlejohn, who is still at large, said that he had been ordered by the British...