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...Ransom Book. The 15th anniversary celebration of the G.D.R. turned out to be a Grade B production: the visiting Communist dignitaries were all second-stringers. Except for the first public showing of four Soviet medium-range missiles, the five-hour parade in East Berlin's Marx-Engels Square was a dreary, neo-Nazi affair of goose-stepping soldiers and sullen workers, clearly more interested in their weary feet than in the oversized pictures of Communist leaders that they dutifully bore past the reviewing stand...
Before announcing the amnesty, however, Ulbricht had released prisoners-strictly on a business basis. Taking a leaf out of Castro's ransom book, he quietly "sold" Bonn 800 prisoners, most of them West German citizens, in exchange for several million marks worth of butter, coffee, cocoa and sugar. The transaction was accepted last summer on behalf of West Germany by Vice Chancellor Erich Mende. When word of it leaked out last week, it was branded by the West German press as a grim "traffic...
Flint Librarian Ransom L. Richardson is convinced that the system is worth the expense-$6,740 a year for rental of Sentrons plus $4,500 for installation of equipment for four turnstiles. "Even if we just cut our losses in half," says Richardson, "we'll be ahead." The Grand Rapids library, which used to lose between $10,000 and $15,000 a year on stolen books, began slipping Trikilis' Sentron devices inside their books eight months ago, has not lost one of its treated volumes since. Says Grand Rapids Librarian Donald W. Kohlstedt: "The deterrent value...
...hanging head down in a high vaulted chamber. Thirty feet below him lies a large glass case. In the case a dagger is displayed. And in the handle of the dagger glitter four of the finest emeralds ever mined, each one of them worth a sultan's ransom...
...millionaires whom he taps regularly, such as the Jewish couple who own Rockingham Park race track in New Hampshire. Last year he performed a spectacular feat that had nothing to do with the church: raising $1,000,000 in a few days, at the request of Bobby Kennedy, to ransom the Cuban prisoners captured after the Bay of Pigs...