Nation: My State of Mind Was Fear

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Frank Sinatra Jr., 20, carbonated copy of his pop, was about as accommodating a kidnap victim as anyone could want.

Testifying in a Los Angeles federal court at the trial of three men charged with kidnaping him last Dec. 8, young Sinatra said he had been taken from his Lake Tahoe motel room "at gunpoint" but had then stretched out quietly— without being bound or gagged—in the back seat of the kidnapers' car. Later, he continued, when the car approached a roadblock full of lawmen, he suggested to his kidnapers that they might fool the cops by telling them that "we've been to a party and I've had too much to drink."