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...Argentina, Naipaul seems to walk on a decaying planet where a succession of carnivores feed on a gullible mass and a demoralized middle class. It is a place where the grotesque is made to seem normal. In 1972 the inflation rate is 60% a year and rising; urban guerrillas kidnap and rob at will; the Ford Falcons of the secret police snatch people off the streets of Buenos Aires as pedestrians go about their business. Perón returns, as does the embalmed body of Eva, "the blond hair as rich as in the time of health...
...Jurist Guido Galli in a corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when the minority Christian Democratic government of Premier Francesco Cossiga collapsed and plunged the country into what Rome politicians call a crisi al buio: a crisis in the dark. It was the 38th...
...Parnell kidnap the boy? Digging into his record, police found an unsavory history. At 19, after a trial in which a court-appointed psychiatrist called him a "sexual psychopath," Parnell was convicted of sexually abusing an eight-year-old boy and sentenced to three years in San Quentin. Only four days before the trial, Parnell's wife-who later left him-had given birth to a girl. A court order prohibited Parnell from ever having any contact with her, a fact that Mendocino County District Attorney Joseph Allen speculates might have induced him to kidnap children as surrogates...
...when the cold war was gelid. The U.S. and the Soviets are racing to get the first satellite into orbit. While CIA Chief Allen Dulles frets and a viciously urbane Dean Acheson argues that a Soviet space triumph may be necessary to shake American complacency, the agency plans to kidnap a top Soviet scientist. Enter Buckley's later ego, ex-Yalie Blackford Oakes, fresh from triumphs in two earlier works (Saving the Queen, Stained Glass) and eager for yet another chance to save the world...
...corporate symbol with Sonny. The horse is not a boozer, but he is on tranquilizers and steroids to ease him through his form of celebrity life. When Sonny's outrage at what is being done to Rising Star burns through his cynical haze, he decides to kidnap the horse and return him to a wild state more suited to his nature...