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- WORLD, Page 47World NotesCOLOMBIAElection by Elimination
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- Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, a former chief of the M-19
- terrorist group, abandoned the revolution two months ago to run
- for President in the May 27 elections. Last Thursday his
- campaign was cut short. While flying from Bogota to
- Barranquilla, Pizarro was gunned down by an assailant wielding a
- 9-mm Ingram automatic pistol.
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- Pizarro was the third presidential candidate assassinated in
- the past nine months. Colombian authorities say the wholesale
- slaughter of politicians is part of the desperate strategy of
- Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the Medellin drug cartel chieftain who
- is wanted in the U.S. Army and police officials believe they
- have Escobar trapped in Envigado, a satellite of Medellin. To
- prevent his escape, Envigado's mayor has been replaced by an
- army colonel, and an extra 900 national police have been
- assigned to Medellin. A person authorized to speak for the
- cartel told TIME that Escobar has assigned his top hit men
- specific targets for assassination if he is killed or captured.
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