What follows is excerpts from the Dallas newspaper on the Web. For the full
story and related stories go to http://www.dallasnews.com/international-
nf/int25.htm. For the related stories go to the search option and enter:
Colombia and kidnapping

<<"They're in trouble. This has Washington concerned," an informed diplomatic
source said. "The guerrillas certainly are creating the perception that they
are winning (and) bringing the government to the their terms.">>

<<Will Russell, a tour guide for one of the largest U.S. bird-watching groups,
Tucson, Ariz.-based Wings, said there has been general agreement among
American bird-watching groups that Colombia should be off limits because of
the security threat.

"It's not as if the Colombian coffin as a bird-watching venue needed any more
nails. I'd say this about does it," Mr. Russell said in a telephone
interview.>>

The responses that I am getting to my question about how wide spread the story
has been in the media is that it has appeared in papers throughout the
country, but as a small space filler well off the front page with no follow-
up, The article in the Dallas Morning News, which I found after going there
for an article about "Hawks vs. doves--should government save wildlife through
rigid enforcement or cooperation?" Looks like one of the larger stories, about
4 pages printed out on a HP820


Great birding and find that next lifer,

John (One of Birders2)

John + Irma = 2, we are birders, too.

John C. LeVine
Birders2 at aol.com
Los Angeles, CA

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to read your e-mails to us. Thanks!

A CONUNDRUM: If the Amazon Forest holds the cures for the diseases affecting
humankind; Then will not the resulting increased multitudes of humans doom the
Amazon Forest? Then humans?
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A thought on leaving a showing of IMAX's "Amazon" 11/03/97

March 29, 1998
3:07 pm PDT