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...morning last week, Graziella Ortiz-Patińo 5, was sitting in the back seat of a station wagon, waiting the family chauffeur to drive her to kindergarten. As he strolled out of the servants' quarters at the villa near Geneva, two men emerged from the shrubbery and pistol-whipped him down. They forced the child into a waiting car and sped off toward the French border, two miles away...
Graziella's father Jorge Ortiz-Patińo, 50, a nephew of Bolivian Tin Tycoon Antenor Patińo, made an emotional plea to the kidnapers. Graziella, he said, "is a delightful little girl, an innocent little girl who is life itself. Please don't let her suffer too much." Ortiz-Patińo, whose family fortune is estimated at $300 million, was reported ready to pay a large ransom for his daughter's release...
Worries about the virulence of the Italian kidnaping disease were soon reinforced. On the same day as the Ortiz-Patińo abduction, Italian police logged their 60th kidnaping this year. The victim was Giorgio Garbero, 4, grandson of Orfeo Pianelli, a wealthy Turin industrialist The child was seized from his stroller by two men as his grandmother wheeled him home from a park. Before the accompanying guard could reach his revolver, he was clubbed and then blinded by a chemical that one of the kidnapers sprayed in his face. The ransom demand, thought to be the highest in Italian...
When time came for me to get a few hours sleep, at around 10 or 11 each night, I would go to the home of the Ortizes, an older couple I was living with who had been farmworkers all their lives, and staunch supporters of the union for many years. During the time we had to talk, I learned of their struggle for the union; in the spring of 1973, when the hard won 3-year UFW contracts expired, the growers signed new contracts with the Teamsters. The UFW went out on strike; the reaction of Kern County was violent...
...Ortiz case seems to be all too typical in Philadelphia. Police have also been accused of severely beating a black gas-station owner, a white college student and a British musician. In July, a cop with a previous record of assault shot and killed José Reyes, 28, a former mental patient, in the doorway of his home. The police say he was threatening the cop, but a witness told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth that Reyes had stumbled and "was goin' in the house on all fours" when the policeman, .standing over him, fired twice. The episode inflamed Reyes...