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...tension finally ended abruptly -and joyfully-at week's end as FBI agents and New York City Police staged a pre-dawn raid on an apartment building in Brooklyn. The lanky young Bronfman, newly graduated from Williams College and about to set out on his first full-time job, was found. He was weary and hungry but well. Two of his abductors were arrested, one at the scene, and police sought others. The FBI recovered the ransom, which had been arbitrarily reduced to $2.3 million by the conspirators. It had been delivered by Edgar Bronfman some 24 hours earlier...
...objective of the latest mission, like that of a similar Mossad raid in Beirut two years ago, was to seek out and destroy Palestinians known to be connected with recurring fedayeen attacks on Israelis. Two teams of six people each were chosen for the mission: a killer team and a spotter team to pick out their targets. The killers went first, leaving Israel around 8:30 on the night of June 11. It was an ideal time: the moon had set early and the sky was black. The six-five men and a young woman-assembled at an airfield...
...stolen regularly, along with easily sold items like TV sets. Mothers tell stories of thieves who raid one room of their apartments while they are in another...
...first, distribution will be mostly through street sales, and the press run is only about 50,000. The first issue contains a few modest surprises. The cover story is an investigative piece about a recent police raid on a local brothel. The issue also includes a letter from Fugitive Timothy Leary, but Coppola will disclose neither what it contains nor how City acquired it. The front part of the magazine is divided into departments on crime, business news, San Francisco history and other local topics. The middle part contains feature articles, and the back is devoted to entertainment listings...
...expense items involving salaries and supplies into the capital budget, which is supposed to cover construction projects. Ten years ago, $200 million was all that had been diverted from one account to the other. In the current budget, the figure has swelled to $800 million. Another tactic is to raid the "Rainy Day fund," which is supposed to be maintained for an emergency. Instead of contributing to the fund as required by law, New York has obtained waivers from the city council permitting it to skip payments for the past seven years. As a result, the fund is almost drained...