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...armed convoy that wound its way through Cologne's streets last week was bringing well-known Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, 62, home from his downtown office. Suddenly the blue Mercedes carrying Schleyer screeched to a halt in order to avoid crashing into a yellow sedan that was blocking half the street and a baby carriage that had rolled across the other half. Sensing danger, the driver of the convoy's second car pulled up behind Schleyer's auto. As three of the bodyguards jumped out, they and Schleyer's chauffeur were mowed down by at least...
...Schleyer that he might be in danger and urged him to travel with bodyguards, as an increasing number of German businessmen have been doing. Not only had police found the initials H.M. (possibly standing for Schleyer's first names) on papers in the possession of terrorists, but the industrialist was also a natural target. A director of Daimler-Benz, Schleyer also heads both the Federation of German Industries and the Confederation of German Employers-the country's two most powerful business associations. He has often appeared on television as a spokesman for Big Business on policy issues...
...Nabokov married Vera Slonim, daughter of a Jewish industrialist from St. Petersburg who had also fled the revolution. A son, Dmitri, now an opera singer in Europe, was born in 1934. Five years later, the family sailed for the U.S., where Nabokov soon be gan to feel "as American as April in Arizona." He taught at Wellesley and Cor nell, studied butterflies at Harvard, and published stories in such magazines as Esquire and The New Yorker. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947) earned high praise but few royalties. With the American edition of Lolita...
...romance. When the pair first met in 1967 on the Polynesian island of Moorea, Pierre, then Canada's Justice Minister, was a dashing, wealthy, bilingual bachelor of 48 and the occasional companion of Barbra Streisand. Margaret, then 19, was the beautiful, free-spirited daughter of a British Columbia industrialist and former Canadian Cabinet member, James Sinclair. Canadians learned of the couple's ultra-private wedding ceremony in March 1971, three years after Trudeau was elected Prime Minister for the first time; the rejoicing was akin to that for a royal coronation. After Trudeau successfully fought his third national...
...Franco's days to try major political offenders, was kidnaped in broad daylight. The general was grabbed by unidentified gunmen in front of his apartment house, bundled into his Mercedes and whisked away into captivity. The operation was almost identical to the abduction Dec. 11 of right-wing Industrialist Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, president of an advisory council to Spain's head of state. Oriol's kidnaping, still unsolved, was claimed by GRAPO, which is demanding amnesty for the remaining political prisoners in return for Oriol's freedom. Sure enough, GRAPO also identified itself...