Word: kidnaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...north of New York City in Westchester County, and two fashionable Manhattan apartments, one on Park Avenue valued at $1.5 million, the other a penthouse on Fifth Avenue. Chair man of Seagrams Company Ltd., he is a handsome, hard-driving businessman with an often mercurial temper. But in the kidnap crisis involving his son, he displayed remarkable patience and poise under severe stress...
FRIDAY. Bronfman eagerly kept the appointment, this time driving to J.F.K. with just the $2.3 million in the trunk of a different car. Raven was punctual, but he directed Bronfman from one phone booth to another through a wide section of Long Island for four hours-a fairly standard kidnap technique designed to detect the presence of tailing police and prevent the tracing of phone calls. Accustomed to being driven by chauffeurs, Bronfman had difficulty finding his way through strange neighborhoods and traffic. At one point in Queens, he made a wrong turn, nearly hit another car in circling...
SUNDAY. Shortly after midnight, another kidnaper became nervous. Identified later as Dominick Byrne, 53, an Irish-born operator of a Brooklyn limousine service, he saw FBI agents near the Lynch apartment building. Apparently assuming that the kidnap plot was crumbling, he decided to fend for himself. Byrne sent someone to deliver a note to a police precinct in Brooklyn. Police notified the FBI and went to Byrne's apartment. He told them where Sam was being kept. When police rushed there, they found the building already under surveillance by other FBI agents...
...girls, he had gone through a bitter and highly publicized annulment fight with his second wife, Britain's Lady Carolyn Townshend. Last week he was to have married another young Englishwoman, Georgiana Webb, 25, whose parents own a country restaurant (Ye Olde Nosebag) east of London. During the kidnap turmoil, the wedding, of course, was postponed-although a truckload of flowers arrived incongruously at Yorktown nevertheless. At week's end there was an entirely different reason for bright flowers, Seagram's V.O. and celebration...
...Council in New York, a job that would make the two Provenzano brothers the czars of all the Teamsters in the East. Daniel Sullivan, a former Teamster official and reformer, remembers ominously that on May 5, 1974, Hoffa told him: "Tony Pro threatened to pull my guts out or kidnap my grandchildren if I continued to attempt to return to the presidency of the Teamsters...