Word: captor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away in less than 30 seconds. For two acts that seem to last longer than the Normandy Invasion, the audience must bear with what passes for dialogue composed of tribal myths, the ramblings of a sensitive and frustrated anthropologist, and the rantings of West and his engaging but strident captor, Carlos...
...Department have received 1,500 letters, including ones from California Senator S.I. Hayakawa, California Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally and Charles Bates, the retired FBI agent responsible for Patty's capture. Asked an editorial on San Diego station KGTV: "How many of us can say we would not follow our captor's orders in order to stay alive...
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This is the film's turning point. The detective's wife falls for her captor, and after prisoners have been exchanged, she betrays her husband's anti-Resistance strategy to him. Jacques then makes a for mal alliance with the Resistance. At war's end both lawbreaker and law enforcer end up with medals-not entirely deserved especially by the latter...
...claimed a link between Caransa's kidnaping and the Red Army terrorist group that abducted and murdered West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Dutch police continued to investigate the case for the nonpolitical offense that it evidently was. "We are not butchers with political motives," Caransa quoted one captor as saying. "We are criminals and we want a lot of money." They got plenty of that -44 Ibs. of crisp new 1,000-guilder notes, worth about $400 each. What continues to puzzle police is why the kidnapers would demand payment in a denomination of bills that...