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...later, the nurse noticed that Eric was missing. A "nice man" had appeared, whispered "Come" to Eric, and led him away, said Brother Jean-Philippe. Other witnesses saw the kidnaper take Eric through a garden to an alley where an accomplice waited, appropriately enough, in a black Peugeot 403 sedan. A ransom note was found beside the sand pile, addressed to Eric's father, Roland Peugeot, 34, who is general manager of the auto company: "You are a member of the filthy rich. You must cough up 50 million francs if you ever want to see the kid alive...
...bureaucrats were acting like capitalist bureaucrats. Several months ago the government ordered all officials and executives to turn in their state-owned vehicles to a common motor pool. The decree has been more honored in the breach than in the observance. One brewery director refused to surrender his Moskvich sedan, pleading that it was needed to deliver beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya Pravda found that in Alma...
...France's Citröen Prestige, a luxurious version of Citröen's front-wheel-drive sedan. Intended to be chauffeur-driven, the Prestige has a dividing window, intercom system, deep-pile carpeting and rubbed-walnut trim, sells for $3,940. Another new Citröen: the eight-seater station wagon, which sells...
...slowest of Western industrial nations to discover the mixed blessings of the age of the Common Motorist. Even yet. there is only one six-lane British superhighway-the London-to-Birmingham M1. And in traffic-congested London, a race between a sports car and a sedan chair staged last week by the magazine Lilliput ended in a win for the sedan chair...
...Hamburg sporting-goods dealer named Otto Schlüter, killing one man. Schluter's "sporting" weapons, police say, included hand grenades and medium guns bought in Communist Czechoslovakia and destined for Algeria. Schlüter survived that first bomb attempt and a later one that buckled his Mercedes sedan and killed his mother. Frankfurt Gun-Runner Georg Puchert was not so lucky. When he started his Mercedes one morning last March, a bomb exploded squarely under him. Puchert fell dead across the wheel, summoning police by the pressure of his body on the horn...