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...postcard later we are in Pomme's world of sequined clothes and superficial song lyrics. She goes to Amsterdam for an abortion as other women go to the beauty parlor to get their hair done. It is a happy time; Pomme feels a part of the family of women, singing songs for them about tulips and "ovules." She goes to Iran with her boyfriend, gets married, gets pregnant and sings "oh, it's good to be a big fat dream...
Dutch police had been watching the apartment building in Amsterdam's working-class Osdorp section for days. During the search for kidnaped Millionaire Maurits Caransa, who was seized late last month and released five days later, authorities discovered that two young West German terrorists were living at Baden Powell Road 217. Though the Germans were not wanted in the Caransa case, one was suspected of having a role in the murder of West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the other of involvement in the bombing of a German regional courthouse...
...five days, he lay on a bed in a "dark den" handcuffed to a radiator and guarded by four men whose faces were covered by ski masks. But Dutch Multimillionaire Maurits ("Maupie") Caransa, 61, who was kidnaped on Oct. 28 outside his club in Amsterdam, remained a shrewd businessman throughout the ordeal. And, as it turned out last week, business-rather than terrorism, as had originally been feared-was the name of the game. By Caransa's account, the kidnapers first demanded a ransom of $16 million. After two days of haggling, Caransa, whose real estate, hotel and other...
...next evening the money was handed over in a cafe located less than 100 yds. from Caransa's office. Then, early the following morning, two of the kidnapers drove Caransa into central Amsterdam and shoved him out of the car. Shivering in the rain, with electrical-wire manacles dangling from his arms and legs, and wearing one patent-leather shoe, the kidnap victim snouted: "I am Caransa, help me, help me!" After hailing a cab, Caransa made his way to police headquarters...
...even, as things turned out, an affable Dutchman who had nothing to do with the high drama of the week before. The son of an Amsterdam oil and coal dealer, Caransa made his fortune by trading military surplus goods after World War II. Later he switched to real estate, and in time came to own several of the city's finest hotels. To his friends the warmhearted Caransa is known as a bridge enthusiast, a physical fitness addict, and a racing fan. To his kidnapers he may have seemed a suitable target because 1) he is one of Holland...