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...boxes had all been rented by a person or persons using the name of Christopher Charles Mohr. Unfortunately, Mohr may strike again. The radicals' letter declared that the bomb scare was only a warmup. Movement in Amerika is considering kidnaping property-a luxury hotel, a corporate office building, a superhighway-in exchange for the release of "political prisoners." The letter concluded: "Who will want to vacation in that hotel, meet in that board room or drive on that superhighway for the next few months?" The radicals also warned that a seven-month time bomb with a more powerful explosive...
...several TIME veterans. Other alumni have achieved comparable success elsewhere. Newsweek's editor in chief, Osborn Elliott, its managing editor, Lester Bernstein, and its executive editor, Robert Christopher, are all former TIME staffers. At the New York Times, Foreign Editor James Greenfield, Correspondents Eric Pace and Charles Mohr, Reporters Israel Shenker and John Noble Wilford, to name only a few, are former TIME correspondents or writers. So are Editor T George Harris of Psychology Today, syndicated Newsday Columnist Nick Thimmesch, Michael Demarest, an editorial executive at Playboy, New Yorker Writers Calvin Trillin and John McPhee, Alvin M. Josephy...
Painful Questions. The death of Von Spreti raised painful questions. Why had the Guatemalan government refused to negotiate his release? It had done so for Foreign Minister Alberto Fuentes Mohr and U.S. Labor Attache Sean M. Holly. The Von Spreti case was unfortunately complicated by Guatemala's domestic politics. A strong law-and-order current is running in the country; it swept hard-nosed Colonel Carlos Arana Osorio into the presidency last month and he vigorously opposes further concessions to kidnapers...
...gunned U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein to death in broad daylight. During the recent election campaign they killed at least nine security officers, a mayoral candidate, a newspaper editor and a retired police chief. On the eve of last week's elections, they kidnaped Foreign Minister Alberto Fuentes Mohr, 41, forcing the government to release a 24-year-old urban guerrilla leader. A few days later they seized a U.S. diplomat, Sean M. Holly, and threatened to kill him unless the authorities surrendered four more of their comrades within 48 hours...
...SILENCE is criminal. We must teach these facts and teach them right, so that knowledge may lead to purity and righteousness. But with the new awakening and discussion of sex matters, the pendulum has swung from silence to publicity that is almost nauseating." So said E. K. Mohr, superintendent of the purity department of the International Sunday School Association. The remarkable thing is that he said it in 1914. The pendulum continued to swing beyond anything Mr. Mohr or his purity department could have foreseen. What was then a pioneering stand for frankness has become virtually commonplace, and what...