Word: schwilden
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...this was no ordinary thief. Eight days after the robbery, the phone rang in the office of Walter Schwilden. an editor at Brussels' Le Soir. The caller identified himself as Till Eulenspiegel, the legendary German counterpart of Robin Hood. Till declared that he wanted nothing for himself. He demanded a ransom of $4,000,000, paid to a relief organization for East Pakistan refugees...
Till arranged to meet Schwilden after midnight in front of a church in a remote village. At the rendezvous, Schwilden found a scared young man wearing a plastic mask who blindfolded him, then drove him for miles around the countryside. "I am not a thief," he insisted. "I am an idealist who stole to do something about the refugees and the hunger." Deep in a forest, he produced the picture, which he held up before the car's headlights while Schwilden photographed...
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