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...arrested, along with an irate husband, for trying to hold the man's 31-year-old wife, Esther DiQuattro, but a New York grand jury refused to indict him. Two sisters, Margarett Rogow, 19, and Elizabeth, 21, charge that their parents, influenced by Patrick, have twice tried to abduct them. A grand jury is expected to consider the case soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Open Season on Sects | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...Panthers claim that Sams is a police agent who engineered the murder of Alex Rackley, a Party member in good standing, in order to destroy the New Haven Chapter. The prosecution admits that it was Sams who actually commanded Kimbro and McLucas to abduct and shoot Rackley-allegedly on orders from "headquarters...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: The Focus Blurs on the Trial in New Haven | 2/26/1971 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Act of Atonement | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: How Secret the Confessional? | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tiger Makes Out | 10/19/1967 | See Source »

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