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...subsequent call demanded the abdication of Queen Juliana as ransom for Caransa. The caller also insisted on the release of West German Terrorist Knut Folkerts from a Maastricht prison cell in southern Holland. Police speculated that Caransa's captors might belong to the same gang of anarchists that kidnaped West German Industrialist Hanns-Mar-tin Schleyer in early September. Schley-er's body was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France, not far from the German border two weeks ago, shortly after West German commandos staged their daring rescue raid on a skyjacked Lufthansa...
...Knut Hamsun was a hero to his fellow Norwegians and a novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. But in the '30s, he espoused Nazism, and when the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, he collaborated with them, later even wrote a glowing obituary of Hitler. After the war, he scarcely deigned to offer any explanation, nor would he acknowledge the slightest regret...
...carry the discount trend to its logical conclusion and deregulate fares completely, leaving the carriers free to charge whatever they please rather than requiring them to seek Civil Aeronautics Board approval for every change. Airline leaders, however, are aghast at the thought of going that far. IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold calls deregulation, which would affect international as well as domestic flights, "suicide." TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast predicts that it would lead to a "breakdown of the system as we know it," and eventually to "pressure for subsidies and nationalization." Although few people are yet talking nationalization, the Ford Administration...
...well: among the graduates of his seminars are Belgium's prospective Prime Minister Leo Tinde-mans, West German Minister for Economic Cooperation Erhard Eppler, Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, South Korean former Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, Japanese Minister of Trade and Industry Yasuhiro Nakasone, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund, and such prominent nongovernment figures as West German Editor Theo Sommer and British Historian Michael Foot...
...want to write. At ten he collaborated on a novel with the boy next door until they got into a fistfight over the description of a sunset. Now his favorite writers include Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck ("Someone else no one will admit was any good") plus Turgenev, Chekhov and Knut Hamsun. The depth of McGuane's reading can be seen in the sophistication of his prose. "I have been sloppy in my approach to being an artist," he says, "but one thing I will say for myself: I read like a son-of-a-bitch...