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That led Escobar to two fatal mistakes. First, he called a Medellin radio station to complain about the "lack of solidarity by the German government." On Thursday, he dared to phone his family at Room 2908 in the Residencias Tequendama to say, "I'm fine," and advise them to "stay in Bogota for the time being." His wife, Maria Victoria Henao de Escobar, wished him a happy birthday and urged him to be careful. Within 90 minutes the calls had been traced through a scanning operation set up outside Medellin with U.S.-donated equipment. The high-tech equipment pinpointed...
Twenty minutes later Escobar's mother arrived on the scene. "Thank God, ( he's finally at rest," she said. An hour later, another phone call reached Room 2908 at the Residencias Tequendama; a television reporter told Juan Pablo his father was dead. "If it's true," said the boy, unable to disguise the pain in his voice, "I'll kill all the sons of bitches." Later in a telephone interview with TIME, Juan Pablo said, "I apologize for my harsh words when I was told about my father's death. You must understand our grief. We've lost the head...
...Export-Import Bank and private interests in Latin American countries, I.H.C. also has an ambitious hotel-building program underway. Scheduled to open next fall, in time for the projected Inter-American Conference of Nations, is Caracas' $7,000,000, 400-room Tamanaco. Bogotá's 400-room Tequendama and Maracaibo's 150-room Del Lago, opening later in the year, will finally give those cities first-class hotels ; and the 600-room Copan, due to be completed in 1954, will help fill the urgent need for more and better hotel accommodations in booming São Paulo...
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