The World - News from May 5, 1988
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A nationwide search continued in Colombia for at least 10 people, including three foreign diplomats, kidnaped by the National Liberation Army, a pro-Cuban rebel group. They include two West German honorary consuls, two Swiss citizens, France’s assistant press attache, the president of a state assembly and an number of Colombian journalists. In anonymous phone calls made to relatives of the hostages, the guerrillas said they were being held in the “new Colombia camp,” believed to be in the mountainous area of Santander province, about 190 miles north of Bogota.
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