The World : Threat Shuts U.S. Embassy

Suspected drug traffickers threatened to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, and the building was evacuated and will be closed for two days because of the threat, police said. Officers from a special bomb unit searched the five-story building. An embassy aide said the bomb threat came after President Virgilio Barco ordered the arrests of suspected traffickers throughout Colombia. More than 300 people were seized in the roundup, the largest ever of drug traffickers in Colombia. It followed the Dec. 17 killing of Guillermo Cano, an anti-drug crusading editor of the Bogota daily El Espectador.