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FRIDAY NIGHT AT HILLEL
5:15 p.m.-MINYAN DAVENING
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Reporters keep secret GM
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS (P) - was lifted 12 hours later - at I
The two-day abduction of 13- about midnight - when word i
year-old Timothy Stempel, until came that the boy had been re-1
he was reunited with his par- leased unharmed.1
ents, was the best-kept secret in, There have been precedents1
the memory of veteran Detroit for a media blackout of events1
reporters. involving a life-or-death situa-
For 48 tense hours local and tion. The kidnaping of news-t
national media withheld news of paper heiress Patricia Hearst1
the kidnaping at the request of was voluntarily withheld by the1
suburban Bloomfield Township media for several hours at the
police, who feared the reports request of police and family in
might jeopardize the life of the hopes of securing her safe re-f
boy, son of the chief engineer at turn.
General Motors' Chevrolet Divi- RECENTLY in Ann Arbor,
sion. news media withheld for aboutl
"I AM AMAZED that the me- an hour word of an abductionI
dia has been able to keep such involving the family of anotherI
control over the story," Police GM executive. The story wasI
Chief Robert Snell said Wednes- released following the safe re-
day, 36 hours after the abduc- turn of a final hostage.
-- U~n +, ntyt m~r ta'n ld d a a rrrtr
- - - - - - tion and while the vohmtary IYoung jrempei was abucteu
news b l a c k o u t remained in from outside his home at about
FIND BIG SAVINGS AT THE VAULT effect. 5:30 p.m. Monday. The Detroit
"Your cooperation has been News learned of the kidnaping
STES critical in assuring the safe re- late that evening and several
turn of the boy," Snell added in news organizations learned of it j
one of several briefings he held Tuesday
V EM®I\['with reporters. The blackout By Wednesday, dozens of re-
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/ efort returns home after
porters and photographers rep-
resenting the local and national
news media were camped in the
lobby of the township police de-
partment, awaiting word of the
boy's fate. By AP and UPI the kidnapper. But they said since this -incident began has
Snell provided details to re- BLOOMFIELD HILLS - The 1 evidence indicated there was been the safety of the boy,"
porters at times so they would 13-year-old son of a top General more than one person involved. Zimmerman said. "His parents
have the full story when the Motors executive was reunited:I Word of the abduction leaked have gone through a great or-
blackout was lifted. with his family yesterday, 54 to the news media Monday deal."
"This is nerve-wracking for hours after he was abducted night, but the story was withheld THE SUCCESSFUL dropoff of
all of us," Snell said at one from outside his home. Police at police urging for fear of the ransomwhih police said
point Wednesday. "I feel I said the boy's father paid a endangering the boy's life. the rat 8:2 p o esay
should cooperate with you if $150,000 ransom to guarantee Ifloedab ti.edey
you're going to cooperate with the youth's safe return. STEMPEL, director of engi- followed an abortive attempt
me. If this leaks out at a critical I neering at GM's Chevrolet motor earlier in the day.
time, I will have egg all over 1 Bloomfield Hills Township division, relayed his son's story Stempel followed "complicated
my face." police said Timothy Stempel, to reporters yesterday. and critical arrangements" to
son of Robert Stempel, was A lone black man armed with make the payoff, police said.
SUNDAY FLYERS "fatigued but alert" when he a pistol, Stempel said, ap- He went to a designated spot-
NOT ALONE walked into the Wayne County proached his son and said, under tight police surveillance-
Medical Center shortly after 11 'You're coming with me." and waited for three hours after
LOCK HAVEN, Pa.ti )-Cur- p.m. yesterday and called his Timothy was apparently a receiving a phone call at 10:53
rent geeral avationastudies of parents. random victim, Stempel hypoth- Wednesday morning, police said.
all flying except that done byl
commercial airlines show that YOUNG Stempel was seized esized, because not until the I However, he received no fur-
the sky's the limit not only for at gunpoint while skateboarding youth was blindfolded and plac- ther instructions and returned
the weekend hobbyist, but for alone near his home in this 'd in the trunk did the man ask home.
many others. exclusive Detroit suburb at hts name. Then, police said, a second
According to Piper Aircraft about 5:30 p.m. Monday. At no AFTER payment of the ran- telenhone call at 7:30 W-dnes-
Corp. here, nearly three-fourths time during the negotiations for som money Wednesday night, ' v night disclosed more ie-
of all private flight involves ransom did the abductor give Stempel said, the man drove tails and Stempel drooped off
business, commercial, air taxi any evidence the youth was his son to the hospital, released the $150,000, which was nicked
and commuter t r a v e 1. One alive. him and ordered him to count up at 9:12 p.m., police said.
fourth is for personal transpor- Police report they have no to 100 before he removed the THE FIRST word that Timo-
tation and proficiency testing suspects, few leads and only a blindfold, thy had been abducted cane
and only 5 per cent is for sport. I"very general" description of Instead, the youth counted to: three hours after the boy van-
--------- ---20 and then ran inside the hos- ished. In the first of a series of
pital, where he identified him- telephone calls, a male voice
ATTENTION ALL SKIERS! self to a nurse. . told Stempel he would have to
No Affinity Groups or Clubs to Join! k th dlaer ad hed w pay $150,000 for his son.
kept blindfolded and locked in- Stempel told the abductor
I side the trunk of a car most >a he ouldn't be bl to
nnw ~ ee i~Q ~ flof the time and that during his Tge tahe moln beae tnk
i ge themone becusebanks
S iiuwiiiuoo u~~uopwI * ~ ordeal he was fed only a mus- hdcoe o eeasDy
Dec. 16-23, 1975 VIA UNITED AIRLINES CHARTER FLIGHT tard sandwich. Police said Stempel asked if
IT WAS the second time in his son was all right but was
PER PERSON less than two months that a told only, "You'll have to trust
GM executive was the object me, man."
of an abduction scheme. Township Police Chief Robert
SKI TOUR INCLUDES Round-trip, Detroit-Grand Junction LT. DON Zimmerman of the Snell said the abductor empha-
jet transportation; Gd. Jct.-Snowmass charter bus transfers; Bloomfield Township Police De- Isized Timothy's life would be
deluxe lodaina seven nights - STONEBRIDGE INN or I:
WILDWOOD INN; three "Get-Acquainted" parties; tips partment said police had not ieonardized if police were called
and taxes; fulty escorted; lift tickets are optional; meals olestioned Timothy extensively. 'in. The chief said he was
not included. He said that would be done ")mazed" and thankful at the
MUST BE BOOKED BY DEC. 1, 1975 later. ;oireration he got from the
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Friday, November 14! PTP', Boccaccio Festival: Machina-
Day Calendar velii's Mandragola, Arena Theatre,
WUOM: "Two Violinists," Ziv Frieze. 8 pm.
Zeitlin & Itzhak Perlman, 10 am. African Film Series: Africa is My
Guild House: Lunch - Richard Home: Problem of Nigerian Unity,
Mann, "Human Liberation," 802 Lec. Rm. 1, MLB, 8 pm.
IMonroe St.. noon. ' Folkdancers: Barbour Gym, 8-11
Educ. Communications Media! pm.
A-v Ctr.: The Drifting Continents, Musical Society: Michael Lorimer,
- Schorling Aud., SEB, noon. euitarist. Rackham Aud., 8:30 pm.
Biological Sciences / Great Lakes General Notices
Research / Nat. Resources: Clifford Alumnae Council Scholarships:
H. Mortimer, "The Dynamics of Nov. 1-Dec.-20 - appllicatlons avail-
Lake Michigan Thermocline," White able at Alumni Assoc., Union from
And.. Cooley Lab., 2 pm. Edith Bletcher, coord., Student-
Int'l Ctr.: Coffee hour, foreign & Alumni Activities, & Betty van den
Amer. students, 3-4:30 pm. Bosch. dir., Alumnae Activities:
Phychology: Herman Witkin, Mar 31 - anulicants notified; 30
SUNY, "The Role of Cognitive Style awards ranging from $400-$1,000
in Social Interaction," Rackham given annually.
Amph.. 3:30 pm. Disabled Students Services/Com-
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