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...eight days the agony imposed on one of the nation's wealthiest families was intense. The Edgar M. Bronfmans of New York, whose Seagram liquor fortune and other assets exceed $1 billion, feared that 21-year-old Samuel Bronfman II was buried in a box with a meager ten-day supply of air and water steadily running out. He had been kidnaped, and the kidnapers had demanded a ransom of $4.6 million, the highest ever asked in the U.S. Frantically the family tried to comply, but hitches kept developing. The wait seemed interminable...
...waiting for him to lose his political balance. Friends and foes alike had wondered if he would be overshadowed by the Russians at Helsinki, but he turned out to be very much the star of the show (see THE WORLD). Both there and on the rest of his ten-day trip, the President was especially courted by the East Europeans, who hope he will keep applying pressure on the Russians to allow them more independence...
...still outstanding in any Sinai agreement: the extent of the Israeli withdrawal and the details of an electronic early-warning system around the passes. Kissinger is trying to bring the two sides to a point where there will be accommodation enough between them for him to attempt a final ten-day shuttle next month...
Some lawmakers are already prodding the Democratic leadership into trying to block Ford's plan shortly after Congress returns this week from its ten-day Memorial Day recess. In March, Ford vetoed a bill suspending his authority to raise import fees. So, blocking the tariff boost now would require a two-thirds majority in both House and Senate; a coalition of Republicans and oil-state Democrats could well sustain the veto. The decontrol proposal is far more vulnerable; it could be shelved by a simple majority of either house within five days after being received...
Johnson, Wiesner and Helmuth yesterday began a ten-day trip to major cities across the United States to initiate the campaign...