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- <text id=89TT3174>
- <title>
- Dec. 04, 1989: World Notes:Colombia
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 04, 1989 Women Face The '90s
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 61
- World Notes
- COLOMBIA
- Wanted, but Not Found
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The leaders of the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel have
- become folk heroes for their ability to escape the relentless
- pursuit of government security forces. Last week Pablo Escobar
- Gaviria, 39, a leader of the drug ring that controls 80% of the
- cocaine entering the U.S., pulled off one of the most impressive
- getaways. In an operation code named Against the Fortress, some
- 600 police and army troops raided a ranch 70 miles outside
- Medellin, but Escobar managed to elude them.
- </p>
- <p> When the police fleet of ten helicopters suddenly appeared
- overhead at 6:30 a.m., one sentry ran to alert Escobar and
- others, while bodyguards opened fire with semiautomatic rifles.
- Escobar slipped away by running through a patch of wild cane,
- scuttling across a creek with planks laid over it and, finally,
- jumping into a speedboat and disappearing. A wide-scale ground
- and helicopter search failed to turn up Escobar, who is included
- on the U.S. Justice Department's list of the twelve most wanted
- Colombian drug traffickers.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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