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...state-operated Renault automobile factory, where he has been chief of labor relations for 37 years. At 7:35 a.m., a white Renault pickup truck pulled up alongside. Two young men in beige raincoats and caps leaped out, grabbed and chloroformed Nogrette, threw him into the truck and sped away. The kidnaping stirred up a wave of popular revulsion and inspired the Paris police to one of the most intensive man hunts in its history. The reason: Nogrette had been abducted by a gang of gauchistes (extreme leftists) as the first step in what was announced as a calculated campaign...
...just after midnight on May 22, 1970, when St. Paul police headquarters got an anonymous call asking help for a woman about to give birth. Two policemen sped to the scene but found only a darkened house. While one policeman went round to a back door, a sniper suddenly opened fire from across the street. The second policeman fell mortally wounded...
...Mars 2 to arrive at the red planet by week's end. Mars 3 five days later. As the days passed without any word from Moscow, there was growing concern that the first of the two Russian craft might have failed to go into orbit around Mars and sped by into distant space...
...couple, but they in turn were run off by a black military policeman. Later the black soldiers began filing back to their barracks; their number grew as they paraded past the officers' quarters. Then an off-duty white MP who found himself driving in their midst panicked and sped off, knocking down five women. None was seriously injured, but by then the crowd had grown ugly. A white worker who wandered out at the wrong time was severely beaten, as one black admitted later, "just because he was white...
...during the third day of our march towards self-destruction, a dramatic change came. The prison officials backed off and gave in. We were rushed up to Berlin where Wolfgang Vogel sped us James Bond style in his pastel blue Mercedes across a secret checkpoint to transfer us to black State Department limousines with British military escorts. We had been saved by the signing of the Berlin Pact! A week after starving and thirsting on the dimly lit floors of Bautzen work camp, we were heading towards the nearest Hofbrauhaus to get rid of that thirst with a couple...