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...that 24 people were arrested, including, it is believed, members of various Mexican police units. The most important catch, however, was Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, 60, known as El Padrino, or the Godfather. He is reputed to be Mexico's leading drug trafficker and a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of U.S. Narcotics Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar...
...history linked to numbers: the Catonsville Nine, who that destroyed draft records in 1968; the Harrisburg Seven, charged in 1971 with plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger; the Plowshares Eight, who attacked nuclear missiles with hammers in 1980. Berrigan, 61, is still an outrider of the Roman Catholic peace movement, which has shifted its protests from Viet Nam to the arms race. Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, was excommunicated after marrying a Sacred Heart nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; she is serving a three-year prison sentence for vandalizing a B-52 bomber. The couple try to alternate prison terms...
...captive of a previously unheard-of organization. Last week a farmer in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley stumbled upon the priest's decomposing body at the bottom of a ravine. An autopsy showed that he had been strangled shortly after his capture, and police theorized that the kidnaping was the work of robbers rather than of any known Islamic political group. Father Kluiters was the first kidnap victim to be found dead out of the 17 Westerners, including seven Americans, abducted in Lebanon during the past 14 months. In recent days four non-American captives have been released...
Have a tendency to kidnap young girls? This is not the sort of thing one says in the middle of one's boss's campaign to give $14 million to the contras, only a week after said boss has called the contras "our brothers" and "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." But it's not the impolitic thing to say if one is using the time-honored leak method to away the course of the boss's policy...
...What we see is that the Sandinista legitimate are usually legitimate battle victims," the official told Brinkley. The contras have a tendency to kidnap young girls...