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...others, I can say that kidnaping today is a real, solidly based industry." Italian Jeweler Gianni Bulgari knew what he was talking about. He had just spent 31 days as a captive after his abduction during a traffic jam near Rome's Via Veneto. Last week Bulgari, 40, lighter by 20 lbs. and a little over $2 million in ransom, was found tied hand and foot in a stolen Fiat less than 500 yds. from his home in the luxurious Parioli district. He had spent the past month locked in a 6-ft. square cell, he told police...
...their six-week rebate scheme expire last week and began pursuing the less-for-less tack. General Motors, for example, has shaved $219 from the list price of its Olds Omega coupe by making such items as radial tires, day-night rear-view mirror and even the cigarette lighter optional...
...tense 54-minute proceedings in Sirica's Washington courtroom, a lighter sentence of ten months to three years went to Robert Mardian, once a top aide to Mitchell at both the Justice Department and the Nixon 1972 re-election committee. Tight-lipped but known to be seething about the fact that he had been linked in trial with the top three, Mardian bolted through a rear door when the session ended. He will return to his family's construction business in Phoenix while he and the others await the result of their appeals. This process could take...
...Ebullient as ever, looking vigorous and rested (not to mention 10 lbs. lighter), Brezhnev discussed European security, trade and the Middle East with Wilson. Although his voice seemed a bit more slurred than usual, he made a 20-rninute speech before Soviet television cameras, giving the impression of a man who was fit and in command-at least as far as anyone could...
Repulsive Charges. To meet that deadline, U.S. scientists, starting with a technique devised in the Soviet Union, will have to develop an almost entirely new technology. Unlike nuclear fission -the splitting of a heavy atom into two lighter ones-fusion occurs when two light atoms collide and merge into a heavier one. The reaction releases considerably more energy than fission. Starting the chain reaction that causes fission (Abomb) explosions and powers today's nuclear reactors is relatively easy; basically, all that is required is the bringing together of enough fissionable uranium or plutonium in the right shape. The neutrons...