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...escaped to France, where an E.T. A. spokesman in Paris explained to the daily Figaro: "Our first idea was not to kill Admiral Carrero Blanco, but to kidnap him and exchange him for our political prisoners.* El Caudillo doesn't interest us any longer. An attempt against him would have made sense 30 years ago. We wanted now to demolish the edifice provided for the succession, and I think we succeeded...
When Getty disappeared after a late night out in Rome last July 10, police were skeptical that he was a kidnap victim. Nobody had actually seen him captured, and police learned that the fun-loving youth had joked with friends about how easy it would be to stage his own kidnaping. Then, early in November, an envelope was delivered to the Rome daily Il Messaggero. It contained a lock of reddish hair and a severed human ear. "This is Paul's first ear," read a typewritten note. "If within ten days the family still believes that this...
Less Charitable. Police said that the deadly efficiency of the ambush indicated it was the work of the extremist, self-styled Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, which this time was out to kill, not kidnap. This same organization last May fatally wounded a Ford-of-Argentina executive and slightly wounded another. After threatening more terrorism, the group demanded and got $1,000,000 from Ford for ambulances and medical and school supplies for the Argentine poor. This time the motive was less charitable. The shooting was seen instead as part of a systematic effort to scare off foreign...
...personal verdict of guilty by President Nixon. "Even there," notes Kaplan, "the court did not have much trouble deciding he could get a fair trial." Manson was, of course, convicted. But Philip Berrigan and the rest of the Harrisburg Seven got off, even after their alleged conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger was loudly leaked by J. Edgar Hoover. Furthermore, the inevitability of leaks and publicity in famous cases, as well as modern means of communication, has long since rendered obsolete the notion of the pristinely "ignorant" jury. Experience in such trials has demonstrated the precautions that can protect the process...
...scene is South America in the '70s, and the situation is even closer to the daily headlines than was the case with The Comedians or The Quiet American. Some hapless Paraguayan guerrillas, stirred by General Stroessner's repressions, cross the border into northern Argentina. They aim to kidnap a visiting American ambassador and hold him against the release of ten political prisoners. But, as one character remarks, "nothing happens as we intend." Acting as his customary farce majeure, Greene has the revolutionaries mistakenly snatch and fruitlessly hold for political ransom poor Charley Fortnum, a gentle, sixtyish, befuddled...