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...garage. Inside were Jorge Antonio, Perón's financial adviser, and Delia Parodi, a Peronista spitfire from Buenos Aires; the guard waved them briskly through the gate. Then, out of sight a few miles up the road, Jorge Antonio stopped the car and bustied around to the trunk. And who popped out? Of course. Even with a hat tugged over his eyebrows and a vicuña scarf pulled up tightly around his chin, the sportily dressed figure who took his place in the back seat was unmistakably Juan Perón, now 69. Secrecy and surprise were...
...yellowish, brassbound trunk not only moved-it talked. From its depths came kicks, wriggles, and a sepulchral voice pleading "Aiutatemi! Salvatemi!" (Help me! Save me!). Porter Mario Colelli, who was loading freight into the rear baggage compartment of United Arab Airlines flight 784 to Cairo, recalls, "It was good Italian, real Italian Italian. Suddenly, I thought, 'My God, this is an Italian, and these Arabs are kidnaping him-some political fellow or something. Who knows what they'll do to him down there in Cairo...
Well Packed. The trunk was addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, and had passed safely through customs because it was tagged "Diplomatic Mail." When it began shouting for help, two Egyptian diplomats grabbed it and pushed it into the Volkswagen truck that had brought it to the field. As police and customs officers tried to stop them, another Egyptian kept babbling that the trunk contained musical instruments and that the sounds probably were caused by accordions still filled with air. The truck raced away from the loading area, but it was soon caught by pursuing motorcycle police...
...Egyptian intelligence, it still has egg on its face. The best story the embassy could come up with was that some fiend had switched trunks on them. The trunk itself had been made in Italy and was one of an ordinary commercial line that was discontinued several years ago. This strengthened the belief that the trunk, and its special Egyptian fittings, had very likely been used before and for the same purpose -most probably in the case of Lieut. Colonel Zaghloul Abdel Rahman, who had defected from the Egyptian army and vanished from Rome in 1962. Roman wags amused themselves...
...Should Say Not!" Gloria's two friends corroborated parts of her story but not all of it. Geri Boxer, who said she became friendly with Gloria because she is "accomplished in a lot of respects a college girl wouldn't be," said she helped dump the trunk but did not know what was in it. Broudy said Fein told him that someone else had shot the bookie...