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WORLD, Page 27World NotesCOLOMBIAEight Down, Still Counting
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.
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.