Word: callers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Page remembers that before the sellout Harvard-Yale game he received a call from England that was cut off three times. The caller claimed that there should be an extra ticket because President Johnson, who planned to go to The Game, had decided to stay in Texas...
...friends all evening at the Continental Club in the heart of Amsterdam. As the Dutch-Jewish millionaire businessman left the hotel shortly after 1 a.m. last Friday, he was seized by armed men, who hustled him into a waiting red sedan and sped away. Nine hours later an anonymous caller, speaking in German, telephoned the daily Het Parool with the message that Dutch police had been expecting and dreading: "This is the Red Army Faction. We have Caransa. You will hear from...
...subsequent call demanded the abdication of Queen Juliana as ransom for Caransa. The caller also insisted on the release of West German Terrorist Knut Folkerts from a Maastricht prison cell in southern Holland. Police speculated that Caransa's captors might belong to the same gang of anarchists that kidnaped West German Industrialist Hanns-Mar-tin Schleyer in early September. Schley-er's body was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France, not far from the German border two weeks ago, shortly after West German commandos staged their daring rescue raid on a skyjacked Lufthansa...
What he has seen has been just dandy. With fullback Denis Grosvenor ripping into the middle of enemy defenses for 601 yards in six games, and speedy signal caller Tommy Roland scooting around end for more than 400, Penn has ground out more than 2000 yards on the ground to break the school record...
...Army Faction?the group taking credit for the abduction. "After 43 days," he said, "we have put an end to the miserable and corrupt existence of Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His death does not measure up to our grief and anger after the slaughter at Mogadishu and Stammheim." The caller then said Schmidt could "take delivery [of Schleyer] in Charles Péguy Street in Mulhouse." which is about ten miles from the German border. There, in the trunk of a green Audi sedan, police found Schleyer's corpse. Medical examination later disclosed that he had been killed shortly after the word...