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Looking up the address of Baroness Alix de Rothschild in the Paris phone directory, Construction Worker Josef Stadnik proceeded to her duplex apartment, where he confronted her son, David, 27, with a pistol. Demanding 2,000,000 francs ($360,000) to spare David's life, the nervous gunman forced the young heir to call his father, Rothschild Bank President Baron Guy de Rothschild, for the ransom. No sooner said than done. "In a situation like mine, you know, with all the contacts you have, it is not hard to find a big sum," David later explained. When Baron...
What Others See. In best holdup style, Clerk Joseph Braunspiegel had just been ordered to the small toilet in the rear of the store, when two unsuspecting customers walked in. They were A. D. Voina, Ukrainian delegate to the United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...
...Russian press exploded with charges that the shooting was obviously political, because the bandits failed to take money from either the cash register or the Ukrainians. Lev I. Medved, a physician who heads the Ukraine's delegation to ECOSOC, said that Stadnik had been shot by a dum-dum bullet (contrary to The Hague Convention governing civilized warfare), sputtered: "Thousands of people in the U.S. are not shot every day. This is an exception." Stadnik complained he had fought through World War II without a scratch-only to be struck down in a supposedly friendly land...
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