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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When no signs of fatherly concern emerged, the police concocted another scheme. Four weeks ago they released Fredy and then waited. Just as they anticipated, Fredy eventually headed for his father -- not knowing that the police were tailing him. The confrontation finally came last Friday southwest of Cartagena. Fredy and two bodyguards were killed by .50-cal. machine-gun fire. Rodriguez Gacha and three others died as they attempted to escape into the jungle. Whether the drug lord blew himself up with a grenade or died in a hail of bullets was unclear...
...street crime. Eventually he was tapped by the then reigning force in Colombia's underworld, the Emerald mob, to serve as bodyguard to its godfather, Gilberto Molina. Recently Rodriguez Gacha tried to elbow Molina out of the profession; that failed, and Rodriguez Gacha had his former employer killed last February...
...Last week Baker bolted into the delivery room to lend a hand. In addition to inspecting the Berlin Wall and meeting East German Prime Minister Hans Modrow, Baker proposed a revamped role for the U.S. in the "whole and free" Europe that is aborning. Its theme: to refurbish existing international bodies so that they can bear new loads as they shed others. Although framed in general terms, the plan nonetheless displayed a creative flair and reassured allies that the U.S. intends to remain, in Baker's words, part of "Europe's neighborhood...
...European power. Worry is widespread in both Bonn and East Berlin that East Germans' mounting anger at the Communist regime, coupled with emotional longings for "one German * fatherland," could result in violent demonstrations that would paralyze the government. The new leader of the East German Communist Party, Gregor Gysi, last week appealed to the U.S. to play a vigorous role in Europe, mostly to dampen West German pressure for absorbing his country...
Meanwhile, demonstrations in Bulgaria showed both the importance of updating the Atlantic alliance and the difficulty of drafting plans in the face of swiftly moving events. Continuing its plunge into reform, the Bulgarian Communist Party last week expelled Todor Zhivkov, its leader for 35 years, and announced that free elections would be held in May. When the parliament postponed until January a vote on ending the Communist Party's monopoly of power, 50,000 jeering protesters encircled the parliament building. As Josef Joffe, foreign editor of the Suddeutsche Zeitung, observed, "If only there weren't all these people...