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...epitomize the icy-cool professional. Now retired from Bondian intrigue, Connery has found his latest role as Raisuli, "the last of the Barbary pirates," a hotter venture. Filmed in the arid deserts of Almeria, Spain, The Wind and the Lion co-stars Candice Bergen as Connery's American kidnap victim, and Brian Keith as President Theodore Roosevelt, whom Connery tries to blackmail. Based loosely on an actual historical incident, the movie required Connery to be costumed in Arab headgear so hot that it kept the actor within wandering distance of his air-conditioned trailer. As for Bergen, she calls...
...information leading to the capture and conviction of the extortionists and announced that it had no intention of paying the $1 million ransom. There was good reason. Said BPA Administrator Don Hodel: "The real hostage in any attempt to cut off energy supplies is society itself. When you kidnap energy, you endanger every facet of human life. That's why we can't let it be shown for all the would-be criminals and mental cases to see that J. Hawker can succeed...
There was relief, too, because the withdrawal reduced the possibility that some madman might attempt a third Kennedy assassination. By coincidence, word leaked out last week that both the Boston police and Secret Service had been warned of a plot to kidnap either of the two Robert Kennedy sons attending Harvard. At President Ford's direction, they were temporarily placed under Secret Service protection; only President Kennedy's 13-year-old son legally qualifies for such surveillance...
...reforms. Yet he has been unsuccessful in winning over the left, which considers his rhetoric hypocritical, since he has done little to bring about the social reforms that he so eloquently calls for. No one expects much change before his term expires, if then. Those who consider themselves potential kidnap victims-the rich and the powerful-are already hiding themselves behind walls at night and bodyguards during the day, resigned to an indefinite state of semi-siege...
That same year Beate also tried to kidnap Lischka, now a senior bank clerk in Cologne, and transport him to France. Under German law he can neither be extradited nor retried in a German court. The kidnap attempt, on a Cologne street, failed when Lischka's shouts frightened off Beate's four male accomplices...