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...hospital said nothing to the authorities, but Marie-Claire's 19-year-old seducer-whose own mother described him as "not very attractive." and really interested only in motorcycles-said all too much. Arrested on a theft charge, he started talking about Marie-Claire. The authorities indicted her, her mother, the two friends and the angel maker. All France settled back to cluck over the trial...
...West Germany. They included East Germans who had fled the country and then tried to cross its territory?as well as citizens charged with aiding an escape, smuggling and espionage. Some of the released men were common criminals; they were rearrested in West Germany on old charges of theft, burglary or embezzlement...
...acre, or 1,333 Ibs. per person. The death toll on both sides is estimated at 1.5 million, with millions of others wounded. As the war clawed across the countryside, it uprooted a rural society, driving millions of refugees to the cities. Corruption, bribery, black markets, theft, drug peddling and prostitution flourished...
...latest statistics show that the growth in all crime slowed to 1% for the first six months of 1972, compared with 7% for the same period last year. There are even signs that the rate may actually decline during the second half of this year. Already, robbery and auto theft have decreased by 4% each. As Nixon said, citing those figures, "If we get the chance, we will turn it around...
Otherwise the story is a promising crime caper, involving the theft of millions of dollars worth of wine. Condon's throwaway lines have all their old weird wonder. Any one of the enormities he assigns to his characters at the rate of three a page would have fueled a complete farce. Jangling together they achieve only a certain frenzy, and give the odd impression of a man shouting desperately to avoid hearing something...