Word: kidnapings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested in Dublin on gun-possession charges and spent 2% years in Portlaoise prison; he suspects the I.R.A. set him up. After getting out of jail in 1977, he returned to New York on his own, but was pressed back into I.R.A. service. He says he was ordered to kidnap Dan Flanagan, who owns the chain of Blarney Stone bars in Manhattan, and hold him for ransom. He told the I.R.A. that he had agreed only to gather intelligence on Flanagan. Then McMullen heard that the I.R.A. planned to send a squad from Belfast to kill him, and he went...
...much of McMullen's story can be believed? Although Blake says he checked whatever he could, TIME sources found some parts of McMullen's story credible, other portions improbable. New York City police can see no reason why the I.R.A. would want to kidnap Flanagan, an unpolitical type; any ransom it might collect would hardly be worth the danger of provoking a police crackdown. David Blundy, a London Sunday Times writer who interviewed McMullen extensively before Blake did, says McMullen's accounts of two bombings in Ireland checked out in every detail, but that his stories...
...prisoner. You will be hearing from us." Several days later, the missing man's family reported getting a letter from his captors saying that he must answer to "proletarian justice." U.S. law enforcement officials remained skeptical and listed him as a "missing person" rather than as a kidnap victim. Said Italian Magistrate Guido Viola of Milan, where Sindona has been charged with a bank fraud totaling $225 million: "More likely, he has fled to some distant place. He has disappeared in his most difficult moment, when he was to come before American justice...
...Muppet pals along the way-Fozzie, the apologetic bear: Gonzo, the not quite turkey; Miss Piggy, the karate queen in the lavender gloves; Dr. Teeth and his Electric Mayhem band; Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, the melon-brained mad scientist, and his twittering assistant Beaker. A human villain tries to kidnap Kermit to shill for his chain of French-fried frogs' legs restaurants. When things look black, Kermit says in despair, "All I can think of is millions of frogs on tiny crutches." As is true with the TV show, human actors have no trouble playing with Muppets. Bob Hope sells...
...first time since 1977, when student mobs rampaged through Rome, Autonomisti toughs have clashed with police in many cities. Their reappearance has been spurred by what Italian officials believe to be a break in the 1978 kidnap-killing of former Premier Aldo Moro. In coordinated raids in five cities, DIGOS squads arrested 22 suspected terrorists belonging to Autonomia Operaia (Workers Autonomy), one of the Autonomisti groups. Nine of the 22 were charged with involvement in the Moro case. The prize catch appeared to be one of the Autonomisti's leading theoreticians, Antonio Negri, 45. He is a soft-spoken...