The World - News from Nov. 7, 1986
Colombia’s M-19 guerrilla group said it will respect a truce on the first anniversary of its violent takeover of Bogota’s Palace of Justice in which 11 Supreme Court judges and 84 other people died. Relatives of the dead, left-wing groups, human rights organizations and artists held memorial observances, and dozens of wreaths were laid in front of the building, whose facade is still pock-marked with bullet holes. Army reinforcements were visible in the streets of the capital as authorities guarded against another spectacular move by the guerrilla organization.
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