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The undercovered civil war in Colombia made a rare appearance on the evening newscasts as Mark Potter filed for NBC from Bogota on a possible prisoner exchange between the government and FARC guerrillas. The key hostage the government wants released is Ingrid Betancourt, a onetime presidential candidate in Colombia, who may be "gravely ill" after six years in captivity. At the same time it is possible that three Americans--Potter called them "defense contractors," which may or may not be a euphemism for spies--who have been held for five years after "their small plane crashed on a drug surveillance mission" may also be released. Potter showed us pictures of Thomas Howes, Mark Gonsalves and Keith Stansell. He noted that Stansell's parents have met with the governments of both Colombia and Venezuela to try to win their release: they say "they feel ignored by the United States government."
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