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Last month, after West German Ambassador Ehrenfried von Holleben was kidnaped, he was ransomed by the release of 40 prisoners, who were flown to asylum in Algeria. One of them, Vera Silvia Araújo Magālhaes, 22, had to be carried from the plane; she said that her legs were paralyzed because of brutal tortures that often concentrated on her genitals. Another, Daniel de Arāo Reis Filho, displayed badly scarred arms. Police left him hanging from a beam, he said, "until there was no skin where my arms were placed across the wood...
Only two weeks after the kidnaping of General Aramburu in Argentina, West Germany's Ambassador to Brazil, Ehrenfried von Holleben, was seized by terrorists in Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian government, which had released 15 political prisoners in return for the life of U.S. Ambassador C. Burke El-brick last September, agreed to release 40 prisoners for Von Holleben...
...Volksoper and her husband, Dr. Kurt Mach. "Love and congratulations," Bernstein wired, "for Oliver Kurt Fidelio." The parents were delighted and added Fidelio to the boy's name. "Think of the poor baby's fate," mused an Austrian TV commentator, "if Lenny had conducted Die Meistersinger von Nੜrnberg that evening...
...announcement of the appointment of J. C. von Helms, a graduate student from Santa Fe, N.M., will be made next week in Washington, the Globe said in a copyright story...
Andreas Winkleman (Max von Sydow) is an inhabitant of that vital Bergmanian metaphor, an isle off the Swedish coast. Bearded, racked, his Christlike face appears to be a skull in rented skin. Indeed, his humanity is as transient as his lust. Andreas' only "friend" is Elis (Erland Josephson), a corrupt architect who shrewdly offers Andreas his money and haplessly lends him his frigid wife Eva (Bibi Andersson). She proves but a temporary distraction...