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go looking for you. The ambassador promised to do all he could and asked me to call him back that afternoon.

'At two that afternoon I placed my call to the Israeli embassy and was informed that on Monday morning they would have a meeting with the Bolivian air force and that I should come to the embassy then.

'I went straight to the Rosario Hotel, and the desk clerk there told me that Marcus hadn't been back yet. I didn't yet think much of that, for I had never agreed with Karl's estimate of how long it would take them.

'I went over to the Jewish old-folks' home to try to find some Israelis who would be willing to come help me look for you, but the place was empty. No one but Grandma was there, so I just left a note.

'So the twelfth day passed and the thirteenth. Monday finally arrived, the fourteenth day. A Bolivian officer was waiting for me at the Israeli embassy, and he took me to La Paz air force headquarters. We wasted long, precious hours there going over the accident in detail, exactly where it had happened and the events that had led up to it. They listened to my less-than-fluent Spanish and promised that they would do everything that they could, but I had no faith in them at all.

'The Bolivian officer then took me to navy headquarters, and we went through the whole business again.