Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY. Bronfman eagerly kept the appointment, this time driving to J.F.K. with just the $2.3 million in the trunk of a different car. Raven was punctual, but he directed Bronfman from one phone booth to another through a wide section of Long Island for four hours-a fairly standard kidnap technique designed to detect the presence of tailing police and prevent the tracing of phone calls. Accustomed to being driven by chauffeurs, Bronfman had difficulty finding his way through strange neighborhoods and traffic. At one point in Queens, he made a wrong turn, nearly hit another car in circling...
Bronfman resumed his course as directed, finally stopping near a Burger King hamburger stand in Queens. He was told to leave his car doors ajar and stand beside the auto. He waited that way for two hours. No kidnaper appeared...
...white man, wearing gloves and a stocking mask, jumped into Bronfman's car. He directed Bronfman to drive through an alley and circle the block twice while he checked for any tailing cars. Apparently satisfied that they were unobserved, the man ordered Bronfman to pull alongside a car parked at a curb. Bronfman did so, then opened the trunk of his car. The kidnaper quickly transferred the bundles of cash to the trunk of the other vehicle. Said the man: "Your son will be returned. Go home and keep quiet." Then he drove...
Unknown to the kidnaper, FBI agents had observed the ransom exchange and got the license number (969KXJ) of the kidnaper's car. Incredibly, neither the car nor the plates seemed to have been stolen. The number checked out to a Mel Lynch, 37, a New York City fireman, who lived in a six-story apartment house in a middle-class area of Brooklyn. Agents quickly staked out the house...
Black Volkswagens slipped through Lisbon's twisted streets last week carrying army officers to midnight rendezvous with political allies. Headlights flashed signals in parking garages. To elude detection, shadowy figures flitted from one car to another, then sped away. Some clearly feared for their lives, especially the nine dissident officers who issued the now famous moderate manifesto attacking the ruling troika for dragging Portugal toward a Communist dictatorship. Their leader and the author of the manifesto, former Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes, was reported to be spending each night in a different place to avoid, in the words...