Word: lorenzes
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...published in West Berlin by the Christian Democratic Union in anticipation of last weekend's municipal elections. They referred to local worries about street violence. But the authors of the campaign did not realize how much danger there was until three days before the election. Lawyer Peter Lorenz, 52, the party's candidate for mayor, was boldly ambushed and kidnaped as he traveled by limousine from his suburban Zehlendorf home to C.D.U. headquarters in central Berlin...
...first political kidnaping in West German history was carried out with almost military precision. Lorenz's black Mercedes was cut off by a truck and rammed in the rear by a red Fiat. When Lorenz's chauffeur got out to discuss the accident with the Fiat's woman driver, he was knocked to the street by a bearded man from still another car. The men then jumped into the Mercedes and drove the protesting Lorenz away...
...Fiat driver as Angela Luther, 34, a suspected supporter of West Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of radical terrorists. Scarcely 24 hours after the kidnaping, however, the West German news agency DPA received a better explanation-a letter from the kidnapers and a photograph of the captured Lorenz-of what had happened. The kidnapers identified themselves as the "June Second Movement," referring to the day in 1967 when police shot and killed a member of a crowd of students protesting a visit to West Germany by the Shah of Iran...
...murder of West Berlin Supreme Court President Giinter von Drenk-mann. It is suspected that he was killed in retaliation for Meins' death (TIME, Dec. 9). Unless the six prisoners were released, provided with $52,200 in cash and flown out of West Berlin on a special jet, Lorenz, according to the note, would be executed...
...Yorker has become--maybe it's always been-boring. The "Talk of the Town" section with its plural-voiced inanities, the epic profiles of dull people, the humor pieces heavier with syrup than satire--this is what fills The New Yorker. Get rid of the cartoons--the work of Lorenz, Geo. Price, Charles Addams--and there is not much left. An occasional piece by Woody Allen. Richard Goodwin's political writing. Pauline Kael. What else...