Word: abduction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldman really Jewish? Convinced that Goldman is actually Adolf Dorff, a former SS colonel expressly charged with the extermination of Jews, three armed Israeli agents abduct him for trial. The court scene that dominates Act II is a desultory affair. It would be a sleepy bore except for Pleasence's arrogant depiction of Dorff. At one point, he rises in his glass booth to deliver a kind of prose love poem to his Führer. The speech rises toward erotic ecstasy so that the climaxing "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" is an orgasm of fanaticism. It terrifyingly...
Last week Jurgen Bartsch, 21, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the four murders. On the stand, he not only admitted the killings and confessed attempts to abduct 70 other children, but also allowed that he had sought ab solution from a priest after attacking his first victim. In Germany, the trial and its ghastly revelations have stirred a bitter debate on whether the confessional should be inviolate when it is privy to admissions of crime...
...Today's Word." But words are about the only things in life Wallach can master. After a particularly agonizing day of put-downs the mailman resolves to abduct and rape the first nubile ("Today's Word") female he chances upon. But instead, after a series of failures worthy of Wily Coyote, he accidentally kidnaps a pushing-40 Long Island housewife in town trying to re-enroll in college...
...bill making it a federal crime punishable by death to kill a President, President-elect, Vice President, and in the absence of a Vice President, the person next in line to succeed the President. The bill also makes it a federal crime to kidnap, assault and conspire to murder, abduct or injure any of these officials. The Warren Commission urged such legislation in its report on the assassination of President Kennedy. If Lee Harvey Oswald had lived, he could only have been tried under state law in Texas. The House has passed a similar bill and will now consider minor...
...attempted to pet and paw female passengers in the automobiles. The women who accompanied the group lay in the middle of the street, where they went through suggestive motions. At about this time, some half-dozen motorcyclists invaded a bar and brutally beat an old man and attempted to abduct the barmaid. Shortly thereafter some dozen motorcyclists went to the local hospital, where they pushed in every door of the hospital looking for the victim of the beating...