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Just why they singled out William F. Niehous, general manager of Owens-Illinois' Venezuelan operation, is unclear. But on the evening of Feb. 27, seven armed guerrillas broke into the American glass-company executive's home in an affluent suburb of Caracas. While his wife and a maid watched helplessly, Niehous, 44, was injected with a soporific and carried into the night. At first it was expected that the ultra-leftist terrorists, like the majority of their counterparts in Uruguay and Argentina, would simply demand that a huge ransom be paid by the company...
...terrorists identified themselves as part of a little-known leftist movement named the Argimiro Gabaldon Revolutionary Command. Instead of asking for a cash ransom, they demanded that Owens-Illinois 1) pay each of its 1,600 Venezuelan employees $116 as compensation for its "exploitation"; 2) distribute 18,000 packages of food to needy families; and 3) buy space in Venezuelan and foreign newspapers for a lengthy manifesto, written by the extremists, denouncing the company and the Caracas government. Otherwise, they implied, Niehous would be killed...
...complying with the third point, the company ran into trouble. The difficulty was a longstanding policy-apparently set by Venezuela's tough President Carlos Andres ("Cap") Perez-of not allowing guerrilla propaganda of any kind to appear in the local press. No Venezuelan newspaper would print the manifesto; even so, Owens-Illinois decided to ignore official warnings and run the manifesto in three renowned foreign dailies-the New York Times, the Times of London and Paris' Le Monde...
...Panama Canal (see box following page). Continuing his global effort to inspire confidence in America's reliability, Kissinger also pledged "to enforce our commitment to mutual security ... against those who would seek to threaten independence or export violence" -meaning the Cubans. In fact, it was Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Pérez who, in his private talks with Kissinger, raised the new "hemispheric reality" of Cuba's Angolan intervention...
...course of his Venezuelan speech last week, Henry Kissinger promised to negotiate differences between the U.S. and its Latin-American neighbors "with parity and dignity." As proof of his good intentions, the Secretary of State noted that the U.S. and Panama "are continuing to move forward in their historic negotiations on a Panama Canal treaty to establish a reliable long-term relationship between our two nations." Kissinger's Latin listeners, who unanimously support the return of the canal to Panama, were attentive but skeptical...