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- WORLD, Page 27World NotesCOLOMBIAEight Down, Still Counting
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- Eighteen bombings rocked Bogota last week as the cocaine
- warlords stepped up their counterattack against the
- government's crackdown on drug traffickers. But the frightened
- citizens of Colombia were also rattled by word that Justice
- Minister Monica de Greiff had resigned her post, just two months
- after taking the job. De Greiff, 32, quit after receiving
- numerous death threats to herself, her Argentine husband and
- their three-year-old son.
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- While a disappointment to some, De Greiff's resignation was
- not unexpected. Before visiting the U.S. in late August, she
- handed President Virgilio Barco Vargas an open-dated
- resignation. Barco requested that she stay on until he found a
- replacement. Last week he did, naming Communications Minister
- Carlos Lemos Simmonds as the interim Justice Minister. If Lemos
- Simmonds agrees to accept the post formally, he will be
- Colombia's ninth Justice Minister in three years.
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