The World - News from Nov. 21, 1985
Gunmen killed the leader of Colombia’s Popular Liberation Army hours after he justified a recent attack by his guerrillas on a northwestern town. Oscar Calvo was shot down by two men with submachine guns riding a motorcycle on a central Bogota street. Calvo said earlier in the day that his group, the military arm of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, respects a truce with the government and has decided not to resume general armed struggle in spite of its recent joint raid with the more prominent M-19 guerrilla force on the town of Urrao.
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