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Swiss Businessman Rudi Bucher was celebrating his 54th birthday at his home near Lake Como when a congratulatory letter arrived from his brother, Switzerland's Ambassador to Brazil. Life in Rio, wrote Giovanni Enrico Bucher, 57, a suave, popular bachelor, was "pleasant and uneventful." One day, he predicted, Brazil would be one of the "stablest nations of Latin America." One day, perhaps, but not just yet. Moments after Rudi Bucher finished reading the letter, he heard that his brother had been kidnaped by urban guerrillas in Rio...
Cracking Down. The Oct. 5 abduction of Cross-the first political kidnaping to occur north of the Rio Grande-set in motion a series of events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500,000 in gold bullion, plus transport and safe conduct for 23 jailed F.L.Q. thugs to Cuba or Algeria. After the ransom was denied, another group of kidnapers then abducted Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, prompting Trudeau to crack down really hard. Under a little-used World War I security measure...
...from TIME'S own woman in Washington, Bonnie Angelo. power petite brunette with an admitted fascination for "politics, power and personalities," Bonnie has covered them all for TIME for the past 41 years. Reportorial talent - and her stamina - has earned her some grueling assignments, including trips down the Rio Grande with Lady Bird Johnson, to Asia with Lyndon, to Peru with Pat Nixon and, just before she started work on this week's cover, to France with the President for the funeral of Charles de Gaulle...
...consequence of the terrorism, reports Rio de Janeiro Correspondent Kay Huff, is that ordinary bank robbers nowadays insist that they are not urban guerrillas, even as they are scooping up the bags of bills and coins. The reason is simple: unlike common criminals, terrorists face the wrath of Brazil's steel-fisted military. Much of TIME'S reporting of guerrilla activity in the Arab world is the work of Beirut Correspondent Gavin Scott, who last week interviewed Skyjacker Leila Khaled in a Palestinian refugee camp. "She proved as fast in conversation as she apparently is on the draw...
...Holleben in Rio last June, have been lounging about Ben Alkoun, a government-owned compound set in flowering gardens in the hills outside Algiers. The Black Panthers formally opened an office in Algiers in September, and there, last week, Panther-in-Residence Eldridge Cleaver welcomed the latest arrivals from the U.S. ?Dohrn and Drug Guru Timothy Leary, who was on the lam from a California prison farm where he had been serving time on a narcotics charge. Leary told reporters he would return to the U.S. "after the revolution...