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...Argentine government refused. The kidnapers thereupon threatened not only to kill Sanchez but also to "start executing all the managers of American companies." At week's end, well beyond the kidnapers' deadline, Sanchez's chances of survival were in doubt. Then, confounding those doubts, Sanchez was freed. "They treated me very well," he said. The kidnapers said he was released for "humanitarian reasons...
...springing political prisoners. Equally important, it has brought worldwide attention to Latin America's urban guerrilla bands and the generally conservative regimes that they oppose. As long ago as 1958, Fidel Castro's Cuban guerrillas seized Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine auto-racing champion, then freed him after a tide of publicity. In the early 1960s, kidnaping was widely used by rebels in Guatemala and elsewhere to raise funds, but the victims were rarely foreigners...
...benign manifestations, it can be outrageously comic-as in the picaresque adventures of Percival Brownlee who appears in William Faulkner's story The Bear. Exasperating to his white masters because his aspirations and talents are for preaching and conducting choirs rather than for farming, Brownlee is "freed" after much resistance and ends up as the prosperous proprietor of a New Orleans brothel. In Faulkner's hands, the uncomprehending drive of Brownlee's owners to "get shut" of him is comically instructive. Indeed, the story resonates certain abiding, indeed tragic themes of American history with which...
...walls and pews, and corralled 142 people including several small children. Judge Crockett, 60, rushed to police headquarters, legally created an impromptu courtroom and began releasing prisoners on their own recognizance. Within hours, the prosecutor agreed to let all but twelve go home. Over his objections, Crockett freed...
...went back to hammering. It made Merilee happy for her amore to have his thing. It made the keeds ecstatic. They could sit forever, Girl and Alfred, contentedly watching him torture his metal and rusticating it or affixing the electric eyeballs to his clowns. Freed, Sam loved the woman who had baked the file into his cake, and they were happier than Merilee had believed people in groups of more than one could ever...