Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though several telephone callers had claimed a link between Caransa's kidnaping and the Red Army terrorist group that abducted and murdered West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Dutch police continued to investigate the case for the nonpolitical offense that it evidently was. "We are not butchers with political motives," Caransa quoted one captor as saying. "We are criminals and we want a lot of money." They got plenty of that -44 Ibs. of crisp new 1,000-guilder notes, worth about $400 each. What continues to puzzle police is why the kidnapers would demand payment in a denomination...
...Louis Martin, librarian of the College, said last night that only the air-conditioning unit was damaged...
...Luckily, there was no damage to the things that count," Martin said...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carre -Kingkill, Thomas Gavin The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
...Daniel Martin, Fowles...