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JUNE 1970: Ehren von Holleben, West German Ambassador to Brazil, was kidnaped in Rio by terrorists who killed one of his bodyguards. Von Holleben was exchanged for 40 prisoners who were flown to Algiers...
SEPTEMBER 1969: U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick was kidnaped in Rio de Janeiro and exchanged for 15 political prisoners who were flown to Mexico...
...Vietnam. KENNEDY will cruise between 75 and 150 miles off the coast, and only the pilots will get to see the country. For the rest of the crew. Vietnam is just another port, with $56 extra a month as hazardous duty pay and stops on the way in Rio de Janiero and Tokyo, where the buys on cameras and women and dope and stereo equipment are really fantastic. And all of that is very good for forgetting about war and even, for awhile, about the Navy...
...stripped naked and thrown into a cell with a man. "I had to remain locked up with him all night, bothered by his advances," she said. Chael Charles Schreier, a former medical student, was seized in a police raid on an underground hideout and interrogated by security police in Rio. Three days later, his body was returned to his family. The medical certificate attributed his death to severe abdominal blows...
...chair, the victim is subjected to electric shocks in graduated amounts, usually until he confesses or-passes out. Another technique is "the telephone," in which the torturer continuously slaps the prisoner on the ear with a cupped hand, often rupturing the eardrum. A failed dental student, now a Rio policeman, has refined still another technique. The "mad dentist," as he is known, straps a prisoner into his dentist's chair, drills until he hits a nerve and keeps probing until the victim agrees to cooperate. Then he fills the cavity, leaving no outward evidence...