Pattern of Terror

THE events in Uruguay are an ugly example of a rising pattern of kidnapings and killings that plague Latin America. Among the major incidents:

APRIL 1967: A terrorist in the Dominican Republic celebrated the anniversary of the U.S. intervention by hurling a grenade at an American schoolteacher and killing him.

JANUARY 1968: Guerrillas in Guatemala City machine-gunned to death two U.S. military attaches who were returning to work after lunch.

AUGUST 1968: U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein was gunned to death in Guatemala City when he tried to escape capture by guerrillas.

OCTOBER 1968: U.S. Army Captain Charles Chandler was shot and killed by terrorists in Sao Paulo, Brazil, while his nine-year-old son looked on. Chandler, a Viet Nam veteran, was slain, said the guerrillas, because of his "war crimes."

JUNE 1969: Terrorists fire-bombed 13 Buenos Aires supermarkets controlled by the Rockefeller family. Labor Leader August Timoteo Van-dor, boss of the huge metallurgical workers union in Argentina, was assassinated by five gunmen in downtown Buenos Aires.

SEPTEMBER 1969: U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick was kidnaped in Rio de Janeiro and exchanged for 15 political prisoners who were flown to Mexico.

MARCH 1970: Nobuo Okuchi, Japanese consul general in Sao Paulo, was kidnaped and exchanged for five prisoners who were flown to Mexico. Sean M. Holly, a U.S. labor attache in Guatemala City, was kidnaped and ransomed for one political prisoner. U.S. Air Attache Lieut. Colonel Donald Crowley was kidnaped and ransomed for 20 political prisoners. In La Paz, Bolivia, Newspaper Publisher Alfredo Alexander and his wife were killed by a bomb that was delivered to their house by messenger.

APRIL 1970: West German Ambassador Count Karl von Spreti was murdered when the Guatemalan government refused to meet the guerrillas' demand for the release of 22 political prisoners. Curtis C. Cutter, U.S. consul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was wounded in the shoulder but escaped kidnaping by gunning his car around a roadblock. MAY 1970: Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, former President of Argentina, was kidnaped from his home in Buenos Aires and killed.

JUNE 1970: Ehren von Holleben, West German Ambassador to Brazil, was kidnaped in Rio by terrorists who killed one of his bodyguards. Von Holleben was exchanged for 40 prisoners who were flown to Algiers.

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