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After Ford's first stop at the Hyatt Hotel on Union Square, he was wisked by limousine to the St. Francis Hotel, even though it was an easy one-block walk. The ride took 24 seconds. He sped past one sign: FREE PATTY HEARST, ARREST GERALD FORD! Six agents jogged beside the bulletproof car. Police with binoculars and rifles looked out over the Union Square park from atop high-rise buildings. Two crouched under a lofty FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES OF UNITED sign...
...wielding woman. An agent opened the rear door of the limousine, and other agents almost threw Ford inside and to the floor. Agents Pontius and Merchant leaped into the vehicle, followed by Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld. All three shielded Ford's prone body as the car sped away...
...onto the street facing Hyde Park. "I saw a woman with both legs blown off below the knee," said a waiter as he sat dumbfounded on the curb. "There was blood and black smoke everywhere." The explosion was heard all over Mayfair, the heart of fashionable London, and ambulances sped to the hotel. "One minute everyone was walking about normally," said Sally Mordant, a passerby. "The next it was complete chaos...
...being driven by chauffeurs, Bronfman had difficulty finding his way through strange neighborhoods and traffic. At one point in Queens, he made a wrong turn, nearly hit another car in circling to correct his mistake-and was pursued by two angry men in the other car. Rattled, Bronfman sped up, and both vehicles raced past a police car, which gave chase and stopped them. Only quick word radioed to local police by FBI agents trailing discreetly at a distance prevented a disastrous delay that could have aborted the ransom delivery...
Black Volkswagens slipped through Lisbon's twisted streets last week carrying army officers to midnight rendezvous with political allies. Headlights flashed signals in parking garages. To elude detection, shadowy figures flitted from one car to another, then sped away. Some clearly feared for their lives, especially the nine dissident officers who issued the now famous moderate manifesto attacking the ruling troika for dragging Portugal toward a Communist dictatorship. Their leader and the author of the manifesto, former Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes, was reported to be spending each night in a different place to avoid, in the words...