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...suburb of Caracas. While his wife and a maid watched helplessly, Niehous, 44, was injected with a soporific and carried into the night. At first it was expected that the ultra-leftist terrorists, like the majority of their counterparts in Uruguay and Argentina, would simply demand that a huge ransom be paid by the company's big (1975 sales: $2.2 billion) Ohio-based U.S. parent. Instead, the Niehous case brought a new dimension to the political kidnapings that have been plaguing businessmen, particularly in Latin America. Indeed, it led last week to a startlingly abrupt-and arbitrary-government takeover...
...terrorists identified themselves as part of a little-known leftist movement named the Argimiro Gabaldon Revolutionary Command. Instead of asking for a cash ransom, they demanded that Owens-Illinois 1) pay each of its 1,600 Venezuelan employees $116 as compensation for its "exploitation"; 2) distribute 18,000 packages of food to needy families; and 3) buy space in Venezuelan and foreign newspapers for a lengthy manifesto, written by the extremists, denouncing the company and the Caracas government. Otherwise, they implied, Niehous would be killed...
...embedded tradition in this country. This would include Charles Eliot Norton, co-editor of the North American Review and James Russell Lowell, the editor of The Atlantic; Henry James and Henry Adams; Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More; Leanth Brooks, co-editor of the Southern Review and John Crowe Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review; or more recently in political philosophy Russell Kirk and Leo Strauss. He seems to be singularly unacquainted with the history of Harvard, since four of the men, Norton, Lowell, Adams and Babbitt were professors here. And on more recent developments he should read George Nash...
Died. Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark, 75, ingenious Hearst newspaper editor; after a long illness; in The Bronx. While night editor of the New York Journal-American in 1934, Shainmark suggested comparing handwriting samples of Suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann with ransom notes of the kidnaper of Charles Lindbergh's slain 20-month-old son. The result was the first concrete evidence against Hauptmann, who was later convicted, and a triumph for Shainmark...
...attack was apparently a joint operation of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a left-wing guerrilla group that has been fighting government troops for years in Tucuman province, and the Montone-ros, the terrorist arm of left-wing Peronists, who specialize in urban assassinations and high-ransom kidnapings. According to the army, 150 guerrillas-many of them boys and girls in their late teens-attacked the arsenal as most of its 40 troops were sitting down to dinner. Stiff resistance by the defenders and swift reinforcements by helicopter from nearby bases caught the guerrillas by surprise. Many...