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There were no new ransom notes last week in the mysterious disappearance and presumed kidnaping on Dec. 29 of Tomas ("Tommy") Manotoc, 32, the divorced golf champion who had secretly wed the daughter of President Ferdinand Marcos. But accusations, recriminations and rumors in the strange affair continued to damage the Marcos family...
Against the wishes of the President and his wife Imelda, Manotoc had married Maria Imelda ("Imee") Marcos, 26, a law student at the University of the Philippines, on Dec. 4 in Arlington, Va. Although a ransom note had offered to release Manotoc for $2.5 million and freedom for four Communists, the Manotoc family believed it to be a fake. They accused the Marcoses of being behind the kidnaping. The Marcoses, in turn, blamed a conspiracy between the Manotocs and anti-Marcos opposition groups. Since then, the two families have been feuding like the Montagues and the Capulets...
...quantities of arms to bomb factories to enterprises devoted to turning out fake police and military uniforms and even fake license plates. At one location the army also found the body of U.S. Businessman Clifford Bevens, 56, who was kidnaped in December 1980 and held for a multimillion-dollar ransom. The guerrillas shot Bevens when their hideout was surrounded by soldiers and police...
...past, the Red Brigades' targets have always been Italians. The only apparently authentic message from the terrorist group was a note labeled "Communique No. 1," found in a downtown Rome trash can after police were directed there by an anonymous phone call. The message made no ransom demands but merely stated that on Dec. 17 an "armed nucleus" of Red Brigades "had captured and placed in a people's prison the Yankee pig of the American occupying forces." The six-page typed text also solicited international support for West Germany's terrorist Red Army Faction, the Irish...
...pattern of Red Brigades kidnapings has been to draw out the agonized suspense for governments and the families of victims, often issuing two or three shrill polemical communiques be-:ore setting ransom. One possible demand in the Dozier case: scrapping a plan to install 112 nuclear-tipped American cruise missiles in southern Sicily...