WORLD IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Barco Heads Home After Bombings
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Colombian President Virgilio Barco cut short his official visit to Japan and headed home, where a spate of bombings has plagued his nation. Gen. Miguel Maza Marquez, commander of the investigative police, said that Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, two chiefs of the Medellin cocaine cartel, were responsible for a blast that shattered a block of buildings in downtown Bogota on Wednesday. Drug lords also were blamed for a bomb that downed a Colombian jetliner Nov. 27.
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