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Argoud's terrorist career came to an abrupt end in February 1963 when he was kidnaped in a Munich hotel and deposited in a bloody bundle in the back of an abandoned panel truck in Paris. The French blandly disclaimed any participation in the snatch, and France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville asserted that Bonn had never made formal application for Argoud's extradition...
...visa in La Paz, she was asked about her financial security and produced $20,000 in U.S. greenbacks. What do they do with their earnings? They spend them on corn liquor or such local variations as Colombia's aguardiente, for radios, sewing machines or even a truck. Some women invest their savings in real estate; many yearn to send their offspring to school so that an illiterate mother can take pride in her well-educated children...
...Ahmed Ben Bella usually gives important visitors an affectionate buss on both cheeks. Not this time. All Chou got was a simple handshake and a carefully prepared speech that extolled, of all things, the Russian propaganda line of peaceful coexistence. Just before the motorcade drove into town, a little truck raced madly ahead, pausing momentarily along the route while men frantically plastered posters of Chou on walls and billboards. Adding to the general atmosphere of carelessness were a few streamers covered with mis spelled Chinese characters. Even scattered shouts of "Chou" from the sparse crowds got a laugh, since...
...adviser to the Agency for International Development; and Robert Fergerstrom, 26, a Peace Corps volunteer-were in the area to deliver a $15,000 check to finance two new schools. As they sat in the home of the Dutch manager of the Siglo Veinte mine, a twelve-ton Mercedes truck rumbled up, and out piled 60 miners. Waving Czech mausers and pistols, shouting "Gringo! Gringo!" they ourst into the house and hauled out the foreigners. By dawn, 17 hostages were prisoners in Siglo Veinte's union building. A radio message went out from the mines to the government...
...Belli any slouch at dramatizing psychological injuries. In one case that has become a legal classic, Belli represented a California fireman who became psychotic after he was injured when a truck rammed the fire engine he was riding. To re-create the exact details for the jury, Belli used an enormous aerial photo of the intersection where the collision occurred. He questioned a parade of 29 witnesses, spotting each person's location precisely on the photo, to prove that the fire siren must have been audible in the cab of the truck. Then he diagramed the positions of other...