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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, November 2,1977
Social Security
Republicans are challenging ‘soak businessman’ approach
WASHINGTON (AP) - Leg
islation to raise Social Security
taxes for workers and their em
ployers is before the full Senate,
with Republicans challenging
what they call a “soak the
businessman” approach.
The GOP objected to the Sen
ate Finance Committee’s vote
Tuesday to end the tradition of
employers and employees pay
ing an equal share of payroll
Multimillionaire
released unharmed
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
(AP) — Four foreigners who
spoke English with a “Mediter
ranean accent” released multi
millionaire Maurits Caransa
unharmed early today after
payment of $4.16 million in ran
som, police said.
They said the gang who held
the Dutch real estate tycoon for
five days were not political ter
rorists but common criminals.
Caransa, who controls hotels,
real estate and other enter
prises valued at more than S4O
million, was put out of a car in
downtown Amsterdam at 1:30
a.m. local time after a 45-60
minute ride from the place he
had been held, police said.
The 61-year-old man told a
passing woman who he was, and
she put him in a taxi and sent it
to police headquarters. He was
reunited there with his wife,
daughter and several friends.
After a physical examination,
an ambulance took him to his
home in Vinkeveen, south of
The Hague.
Chief Inspector Gerard Too
renaar said the ransom was
paid in 10,000 thousand-guilder
bills each but that he did not
know how the demand was
communicated or the money
delivered because the family
had kept police out of negotia
tions.
Caransa was forced into the
back seat of a car early last
Friday as he left an Amsterdam
club after playing bridge.
Toorenaar said he reported he
was kept lying on a bed, hand
cuffed to a heating pipe bed
throughout the five days, but he
was not mistreated or threat
ened.
He said his captors wore
knitted helmets over their faces
when they came into the room.
Anonymous telephone calls to
Dutch newspapers and author
ities claimed the abduction was
carried out by terrorist groups,
including the West German Red
Army Faction and South Moluc
can nationalists. But when no
political demands were re
ceived after several days, the
belief grew that it was a kid
napping for money only.
“If the crime were politically
motivated it would seem that
the kidnappers would have cir-
Maddox says Carter going
in too many directions
ATLANTA (AP) — He may
still be weak from his recent
heart attack, but former Geor
gia Gov. Lester Maddox isn’t
too weak to tell his old foe Jim
my Carter that he’s “going in
too many directions.”
“I’ve been low before, but
never this low,” Maddox said
Tuesday in an interview at his
home, where he is recuperating
from a September heart attack.
Maddox, 62, said he probably
won’t be able to resume his
normal activities as a real es
tate dealer and a nightclub per
former before Jan. 1.
But he wasn’t too weak to
send what he called a four-page
critique of President Carter to
the White House.
Maddox, who was lieutenant
governor of Georgia when Car
ter was governor, said his letter
thanked Carter for calling while
Maddox was hospitalized.
But the thanks stopped there.
“In my opinion (and I hope
I’m wrong), you haven’t sin
cerely listened to or followed
my advice or sincerely smiled
at me since you were cam
paigning for governor of Geor
gia in 1970,” the letter said.
“You are going in too many
directions,’’ Maddox wrote.
“You are slipping on too many
tennis balls and sliding on too
many tricycles.”
Maddox, who became nation
ally known after he brandished
a pick handle to bar blacks from
taxes to support the system.
Employers eventually would
pay almost double what their
workers contribute to the sys
tem under the committee’s bill,
which the Senate could start
considering as early as today. A
House bill passed last week
would retain the equal tax bur
den.
Sen. Carl T. Curtis of Nebras-
t W
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Dutch multimillionaire Maurits
Caransa was released unhar
med by his kidnapers,
Amsterdam police reported
early Wednesday. (AP)
culated well-documented
claims and photos by now," one
source said earlier this week.
Authorities said other tele
phone calls demanding ransoms
ranging from $20,000 to $lO mil
lion probably were hoaxes also.
Caransa’s wife made a radio
appeal Sunday asking the kid
nappers to make their demands
known.
Caransa, bom of a poor Jew
ish family of Portuguese de
scent, was imprisoned briefly
by the Nazis during World War
11, but his parents and two
brothers died in concentration
camps.
After the war, he began trad
ing in military surplus which he
bought from the U.S. Army in
Germany and sold in the Middle
East. He entered the real estate
business in Holland in the early
1950 s and now is one of the
country’s wealthiest men, an
owner of race horses, a director
of the Amsterdam soccer team
and a bridge addict.
He also makes big donations
to charity and is prominent in
Jewish philanthropic work. Be
fore his abduction, he
frequently told friends no harm
would ever come to him be
cause he had no enemies.
“I’ve helped too many
people,” he said.
his Atlanta restaurant in the
19605, also criticized Carter’s
approach to human rights.
“While you are hung up on
human rights,” he wrote, “I’d
appreciate it if you would save
some of mine and if you could
try and have some of them re
stored that I’ve already lost.”
He also encouraged Carter to
revive the economy.
“The people who build Amer
ica, build plants, create jobs,
invest capital and develop the
great industrial private enter
prise muscle of this nation will
open up when you open up,” he
said. “The great ripoff is not
coming from industry but from
government.”
LITTLE SWIMMER
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (AP)
— Nine-month-old Fred Garcia
111 has become the youngest
person ever to pass the begin
ner’s stage of the Red Cross
swimming test in Greta Ander
sen’s swimming school here.
For his achievement, Fred
received Miss Andersen’s gold
medal from the 1948 Olympics
and a Red Cross certification
card, which he promptly at
tempted to eat.
The son of Dr. and Mrs. Fred
Garcia blew bubbles, bobbed
his head and swam 30 feet. He
floated on his back 30 seconds
and bounced back up when
pushed to the bottom in 5 feet
of water. He did all this after
only 15 swimming lessons.
ka, ranking Republican on the
finance committee, says the
GOP has a good chance to win
retention of equal payroll taxes.
He said the American people
would reject the anti-business
slant of the bill.
Curtis said Republicans also
want to keep a House provision
that would gradually eliminate
the earnings ceiling, which re-
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