The World - News from Aug. 18, 1985
A U.S. oil executive was kidnaped by leftist guerrillas near his home in a wealthy suburb of Bogota, Colombia. Michael W. Stewart, 38, an assistant operations manager for Houston Oil Co., a Colombian subsidiary of the Houston-based Tenneco Inc., was abducted along with a bodyguard by six gunmen, who said they were members of the M-19 guerrilla movement. The bodyguard was later released.
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