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...taking, airliner hijackings and political assassinations are all too true to be good; but they make splendid fiction. Indeed, with a big assist from the headlines, the terrorist saga has become one of thriller literature's most prolific genres. This spring has exploded with more than a dozen heist-and-ransom adventures whose plots range from setting the North Sea oilfields afire to capturing U.S. nuclear plants. In one, a team of thugs heists Manhattan, no less; in another, Muslim-backed bullyboys hold Queen Elizabeth II hostage. The authors tend to go in for archetype casting: scheming Arabs...
...They got the mother lode in this one." The heist ranks with the Lufthansa robbery in 1978 at New York City's Kennedy Airport, in which thieves stole $5.8 million worth of currency and jewelry being handled by the airline. By contrast, the famed 1950 Brinks robbery in Boston netted about $2.8 million...
...most bizarre episodes in nu clear history was the 1968 disappear ance at sea of a shipment of 200 tons of uranium. The heist was not confirmed until 1977, when it was generally assumed that the Israelis had latched onto the ore, enough to make 30 bombs at their atomic reactor in the Negev. This insubstantial news snippet was seized upon by bestselling English Novelist Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle), who has processed it into one of the liveliest thrillers of the year...
...these tales we must, for the length of the film, set aside conventional morality to root for the criminals and against their victims. But in this film the crooks are so pleasant that they practically recede to ectoplasmic levels before our eyes, while the bank they set out to heist is so anonymous that it does not provide them with a properly menacing nemesis. The result is one of the least offensive but also least memorable crime movies of the year...
About 4000 coins which were stolen in the 1973 heist are currently on display in the Fogg, a museum spokesman said yesterday. Authorities recovered these coins in 1974 in Rhode Island and Montreal, Delahunt said...