Word: kidnapings
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...political furniture could just as well be Grand Rapids-it is only there for the hero and heroine to fall over. As a result, Director Reed spends much of his time straining for exquisite effects (e.g., the hoarse crunch of snow under the Russian kidnap-car as it crawls like a malevolent beetle in pursuit of the heroine) that go with the rest of the picture about as well as a Dostoevsky passage goes with Erie Stanley Gardner...
...been told where to find Bobby. Their informant: the kidnap leader. He was Carl Austin Hall, 34, a thief, an alcoholic and a morphine addict (one-half grain every six hours). His past was odd and ugly...
...gesture got wide attention the world over, but the fact is that Russia achieved its effect by the number of its moves, not by the substance of them. There were concessions on the Berlin blockade, not an end to it; a harmless drunk was released, not an important kidnap victim like Berlin's brave Dr. Linse. Peace might come in Korea, and this would indeed be substantial news, but it had not come yet, and the possibilities of delay and dissension at Panmunjom were as great as before...
...finished one stretch in an East Berlin jail and was headed for a trial that might bring him another when he was visited by a top East German secret police bureaucrat known to him only as "Paul." Paul had a bargain to offer. If Knobloch would agree to help kidnap Dr. Walter Linse, the No. 2 man in the anti-Communist Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, he himself would be set free; if he refused, Knobloch would find himself in jail for a long, long time. Knobloch accepted the bargain...
...Linse was a man the Communists wanted badly (TIME, July 21) and he was on guard. Before Knobloch's team was brought into action, another group of Communist thugs had tried three times to kidnap Dr. Linse, and failed. Then team No. 2-Knobloch, a professional wrestler and two other bully boys-got the alert. At 7:20 on the morning of July 8, an East German Opel, disguised as a West Berlin taxicab, stopped outside Linse's home. Linse emerged and Knobloch asked him for a light. As Linse fumbled for his lighter, the wrestler pinioned...