Word: nadjari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blabbing Hackie. With the understanding that the accused men would get reduced sentences for their cooperation, Kuhn was permitted to return to Miami with Nadjari and four detectives. It was to be a secret mission -but it turned into a public and fantastic chase...
...jewels, the reporters followed. From motel to motel the gem seekers fled. From motel to motel followed the reporters, some of them keeping contact by walkie-talkies. Twice, Kuhn and his police escorts leaped 20 ft. from the window of a motel room to evade their pursuers. Another time, Nadjari and Kuhn tried to get away from the press in a cab, paid the driver an extra $20 to keep his mouth shut; the hackie promptly appeared on a local TV show, blabbing his story...
...while, Kuhn was trying, through a series of 50 telephone calls, to persuade or cajole some mysterious, disembodied voices to come up with the jewels. Whether those voices belonged to accomplices, fences, intermediaries-or maybe even talking porpoises-only Kuhn knew. Still, nothing seemed to jell. Nadjari once got a tip that sent him racing to a boat yard, where he struggled into swim trunks, mask and fins for a session of skin-diving. He found nothing but sea cockles, mussels and seaweed...
...this time, Nadjari was beginning to get a little disgusted with Kuhn's failure to turn up the gems. Kuhn, moreover, seemed to be enjoying himself a little too much. When the cops had to hire a car, for example, Kuhn insisted on riding in nothing less than a red convertible, and that's what...
Gulped Note. Toward the end, Nadjari ceased to rely on Kuhn, had him locked for hours at a time in motel bathrooms or kept him in a room where Kuhn entertained himself watching the Mickey Mouse Club and Romper Room on television...