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...abducted Murphy had an elaborate plan to prevent the FBI from tracing the phone call during which he would issue final instructions for the payoff. On the tape, Murphy said that the "colonel" would select an Atlanta telephone number at random and direct whoever answered his call to relay his message to Constitution officials...
...knows precisely the amount that a customer could now claim; by one rough estimate, the per-bottle refund might be $6. But after the first 43-state settlement, fewer than 40,000 persons made individual claims. Others who were entitled to a share of the payoff were apparently ignorant of the suit or bothered by the bureaucracy of state offices and the forms requiring old purchase records. Consequently, the bulk of the funds distributed so far has gone into state treasuries...
...construction at Lok Ma Chau is ever to be completed, the cannons may come in handy to slay the dragon of the parking lot. If that does not work, maybe a plain old payoff in the form of new village sidewalks will pacify the dragon...
When McCord later detailed his charges to Government and Senate investigators, he claimed he had been told that former Attorney General John Mitchell had approved the Watergate wiretapping plans, that all the defendants had been given regular installments of payoff money to keep quiet, that he and others had been promised Executive clemency in return for their silence after serving short prison terms, and that this offer came from the White House. McCord's sources of information were Liddy and Hunt, making his own testimony hearsay and thus legally inconclusive in a criminal case. But the fact that McCord...
Forensic specialists confirmed that the ear was Paul's. The grim evidence apparently also convinced the elder Getty, who until then had adamantly refused to give any ransom. In the end, he reportedly sent his personal emissary, a former CIA man, to negotiate the ransom and release. The payoff was estimated to be $2.8 million, considerably less than the $17 million originally demanded. Young Getty was saying little publicly about his experience last week. As his mother, former Actress Gail Harris, said shortly before his release, "He will need time to learn to believe in love and affection once...