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...drama-and gruesome detail-was the continuing saga of Dutch Industrialist Tiede Herrema, 54, who was abducted near Limerick earlier this month by two I.R.A. extremists (TIME, Oct. 20). Since then, Herrema and his kidnapers have been the target of the biggest man hunt in recent Irish history. The Dublin government has steadfastly refused to meet the desperadoes' demand that three convicted Irish terrorists be released from prison. Kidnaper Eddie Gallagher, 27, and his woman companion, reported to be Marian Coyle, 19, sent police a tape-recorded message by Herrema, who said in a quavering voice...
...personally because of his relationship with Kennedy. He dwells on the time when Kennedy told him at an October 1963 reception in Washington, "I will see more of you later in January when I can tell you about the world, and you can tell me about Cambridge and Dublin...
Announced Dublin's Minister of Justice Patrick Cooney: "Such demands have to be resisted. The best protection against such kidnaping is to let the people who carry them out ascertain that they are quite futile exercises." Nonetheless, a Dutch representative of Herrema's firm was ready to pay an undisclosed sum as ransom and fly the kidnapers out of Ireland. Even if the terrorists were to give up on the release of Dugdale and the other prisoners, the government would have to agree to give the kidnapers safe passage abroad...
...most fantastic party we've ever had," said Film Producer Kevin McClory, after opening his 500-acre Irish estate outside Dublin to performers from Duffy's Circus and a parade of Hollywood stars. Well, promotion might be a better word for it, but it certainly was eminently successful. With 980 spectators paying $40 and more for seats, Performers Shirley MacLaine, Sean Cannery, Burgess Meredith and Eric Clapton donned clown costumes and joined with Duffy's jugglers, acrobats and tumblers-all to raise money for a pair of children's charities: the Central Remedial Clinic...
...huge machines used in open-pit operations replaced many miners. Then the machines began digging into Butte itself. First opened just to the south of the city, the ever-growing Berkeley pit has swallowed neighborhoods with names like Dublin Gulch and Sin Town; since 1970, it has devoured most of the city's residential McQueen section. Currently, it is chewing away at downtown Butte. Meanwhile, a second pit, begun in 1973, has destroyed the Columbia Gardens amusement center and the city's only sizable park. With the remaining ore reserves due to run out in a decade...