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World IN BRIEF : COSTA RICA : 5 Gunmen Collect Ransom and Leave

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Five gunmen who occupied the Nicaraguan Embassy for 13 days collected a $250,000 ransom and released the last of their 25 hostages before being permitted to leave the country. Three left aboard a Costa Rican helicopter to join rebels in Nicaragua. The group’s leader, Jose Urbina Lara, and a fifth member left for political asylum in the Dominican Republic.

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