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...Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked him to kidnap Mossler, was so deflated by Foreman that part of his confused and contradictory testimony was stricken...
...student in pre-World-War-I Moscow, explaining to his superior that he would rather practice than do research, on account of liking people. But as it turns out, Zhivago spends most of his life writing poems, and the only time he practices his trade is when the Bolshiveks kidnap him and force him to care for the people he loves so dearly...
Married. Leonard K. Firestone, 58, son of the late rubber magnate, Harvey S. Firestone, and intended victim of an abortive multimillion-dollar kidnap plot two months ago; and Barbara Knickerbocker Heatley, 50, widow of a San Francisco banker; both for the second time; in Carmel, Calif...
That left the question of who kidnaped Ben Barka just where it had been before: wildly up in the air. Key witnesses to the Left Bank snatch were still in hiding or not talking or dead or simply unidentifiable. Gaullist Deputy Pierre Lemarchand-a close friend of Figon and French Interior Minister Roger Frey, and himself one of the barbouzes (bearded ones) who serve as De Gaulle's super-CIA-testified before an investigating magistrate that a handful of French cops had accepted $200,000 from the Moroccans for helping kidnap Ben Barka, but insisted that neither Frey...
...that the President, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, first began to count which members of the armed forces might be loyal to him; and it was then that the Prime Minister, "moderate" old Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, set an armed guard around the President's mansion and made plans to kidnap him and ship him out of the country...