Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That left the question of who kidnaped Ben Barka just where it had been before: wildly up in the air. Key witnesses to the Left Bank snatch were still in hiding or not talking or dead or simply unidentifiable. Gaullist Deputy Pierre Lemarchand-a close friend of Figon and French Interior Minister Roger Frey, and himself one of the barbouzes (bearded ones) who serve as De Gaulle's super-CIA-testified before an investigating magistrate that a handful of French cops had accepted $200,000 from the Moroccans for helping kidnap Ben Barka, but insisted that neither Frey...
...worry was Bailey, an ex-con who had turned respectable and had acquired a $75,000 house and four children. Bailey took over the show, threatened to kill Skalla if he pulled out. He even got the nervous Skalla to thinking that he would kill him anyway once the snatch was completed...
William Buckingham's set is cramped and jury-rigged, even considering the difficulties of setting up in the House dining hall. The lighting often casts shadows over the actors' faces and is slow coming on. One technical touch is superb, however: a snatch of wistful carnival music used as the theme for the glass menagerie...
...been ardently working. A part of the reconciliation plan calls for a full pardon for Ben Barka and his eventual return to Morocco. But there were just as many reasons for believing a handful of other hypotheses, including one that members of his own party had pulled the snatch to keep Ben Barka from returning to Morocco and thus reducing their own political power...
Tucked away in their hammocks beneath the dripping rain-forest canopy, the Viet Cong guerrillas could hardly believe their ears. Out of the night sky came an ominous, warbling whine, like bagpipes punctuated with cymbals. It was Buddhist funeral music-a dissonant dirge cascading from the darkness. Then a snatch of dialogue between a mother and child: "Mother, where's Daddy?" "Don't ask me questions. I'm very worried about him." "But I miss Daddy very much. Why is he gone so long?" Then the music and voices faded slowly into the distance, and the platoon...