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...setting was not the location of a film spectacular. Instead, it was the 27th annual rally of the world's oldest (34 years) and biggest (about 5,000,000 members) camping clubs, the International Federation of Campers and Caravaners (F.I.C.C.). To Lake Balaton and three other nearby sites had come no fewer than 7,000 outdoors enthusiasts from 23 countries...
...university officials, near the main administration and library building at the base of the tower. Dressed in tennis sneakers, blue jeans and a pale polo shirt, he wheeled the loaded dolly toward an elevator, gave passersby the impression that he was a maintenance man. The elevator stops at the 27th floor; Whitman lugged his bizarre cargo up three flights of steps to the 30th floor. There, at a desk next to the glass-paneled door that opens onto the observation deck, he encountered Receptionist Edna Townsley, 47, a spirited divorcee and mother of two young sons. Whitman bashed her head...
...slammed the door." Gabour turned his younger son over, saw he had been shot in the head. He was dead. So was Gabour's sister. Critically injured, his wife and his older son were bleeding profusely. Gabour and his brother-in-law dragged their dead and wounded to the 27th floor, sought help but could find none...
...four rode to the 27th floor, headed single file up the last three flights, carefully removed a barricade of furniture that Whitman had set at the top of the stairs. While cops on the ground intensified their fire to divert Whitman's attention, Martinez slowly pushed away the dolly propped against the door leading to the walkway around the tower, crawled out onto its south side and began moving stealthily to the east. Crum followed through the door and turned toward the west. Hearing footsteps, Crum fired into the southwest corner to keep Whitman from bursting around the corner...
...Cuba to the other, the police, the armed forces, the secret security, Castro's network of neighborhood spies and "the entire organized populace" searched for more than two weeks. Their quarry: Angel Betancourt Cueto, the flight engineer who tried to hijack a Cubana Airlines plane March 27th and ended up killing the pilot and a guard before leaping from the plane and escaping (TIME, April 8). Last week Castro finally found his man-and with him an excuse to discredit what little remains of religion in Cuba...