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Rudd wants, let's call it, a revolution. His activities--stopping registration, holding buildings as ransom for six demands--have been an attempt to influence decisions students normally couldn't change and building strength for an even greater power in decisions. But how what the revolutionaries are doing at Columbia ties into what they hope is a world revolution Rudd can't tell...
...Lampoon has long been master of kidnapping, though the ransom is not always so high. In what may have been the first instance of lbis stealing, in 1941, five Crimson editors were bound, gagged, and buried in copies of their own newspaper. Coles Phinizy, president of the Lampoon, displayed Mafia-like toughness declaring, "The lbis is worth 150 dollars, and those guys aren't worth 20 dollars apiece. They'll get nothing but dried toast and an occasional drink of water until we do get it back." They got it back...
Crew's Ransom. Nor did Kennedy win any points for statesmanship when he carped that the Administration's delay over settling on a peace-negotiation site was "unforgivable." Bobby repeated the simplistic notion that an end to the war would overnight redirect billions from military expenditures into urban programs...
Eugene McCarthy also complained that Johnson was too slow in agreeing to a site for peace negotiations. In Pittsburgh, he suggested that Secretary of State Dean Rusk be dismissed as a "symbolic" gesture, and in Philadelphia, though he later hedged the idea, he proposed that the U.S. pay ransom to North Korea for the return of the U.S.S. Pueblo's crew...
Feet Dragging. Last week the bandits released the son of an automobile dealer whose family had ignited the campaign against them. Once again, they claimed a victory. While the relatives of Nino Petretto, 37, had originally refused to ransom him, in the end they decided that it was wiser to pay the bandits' $8,000 rather than risk his death or mutilation. Many islanders are still anxious to fight the bandits, but they know that they will need outside help to do it. The Italian government has dragged its feet even on appointing a commission that was approved...