The World - News from Nov. 19, 1985
About 150 leftist guerrillas in Colombia seized the northern town of Urrao for seven hours, then were ousted in fighting for the police station that left two policemen and one rebel dead. Mayor Guillermo Canola said the guerrillas withdrew into the mountains 300 miles north of Bogota. He said they left pamphlets signed by the People’s Liberation Army and M-19, the group that occupied the nation’s Justice Palace earlier this month until an army assault killed 95 people.
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