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Through its official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican promptly rejected a role as intermediary, saying that the kidnapers were demanding "absurd compensations." Even Agca wanted no part of the deal: he is well aware that only his Italian jailers stand between him and possible Soviet retribution for his confessions. Said the onetime terrorist: "I appeal to the kidnapers: free this poor girl. I have nothing to do with criminals. I am with Italy, with the Italian people, with the Vatican...
...Michigan stockbroker, was soundly defeated in his bid for a director's seat because of his failure to win Boyd's approval. This year Boyd's only opposition was a shareholder who circled the chairman's age in the proxy and wrote: "This is absurd." Boyd, who, with his wife Helen, is the second largest shareholder, with a 16.4% stake, won re-election with 84% of the voting stock. On Oct. 25, American business is due to get the first known centenarian chairman of the board...
...attempts to link Nicaragua to Salvadoran rebels. A totally absurd excuse for the U.S. to commit aggression against us. We did not invent the Salvadoran revolution. As recently as 1977, their guerrilla movement was stronger than ours. The Salvadoran revolutionaries do not have military bases here. If they have bases outside El Salvador, they are in Guatemala and Honduras...
...Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "It's utter nonsense that we are going to become a high-tech and a service economy. The high-tech companies have more manufacturing offshore than here. The idea that we can have an economy by selling hamburgers to each other is absurd...
...Absurd things had a way of occurring in Kleist's life as well as his art. The man who could never hang on to money served briefly as an assistant to the Finance Minister of Prussia. In 1810 he became editor of Berlin's first daily newspaper and made it into a popular journal that kept the city chatting. One of the things it chatted about was Kleist. Goethe decided that the young author was "no common talent" but "barbaric" and "misshapen...