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<text id=89TT3174>
<title>
Dec. 04, 1989: World Notes:Colombia
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 04, 1989 Women Face The '90s
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 61
World Notes
COLOMBIA
Wanted, but Not Found
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<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.
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</body></article>
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