The World: Don't Let Her Suffer

At 8:10 one morning last week, Graziella Ortiz-Patińo 5, was sitting in the back seat of a station wagon, waiting the family chauffeur to drive her to kindergarten. As he strolled out of the servants' quarters at the villa near Geneva, two men emerged from the shrubbery and pistol-whipped him down. They forced the child into a waiting car and sped off toward the French border, two miles away

Graziella's father Jorge Ortiz-Patińo, 50, a nephew of Bolivian Tin Tycoon Antenor Patińo, made an emotional plea to the kidnapers. Graziella, he said, "is a...

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