Word: kidnap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIAMOND was our counterdemonstration plan. At the time, we still expected the [Republican] convention to be held in San Diego. I proposed to identify protest leaders, kidnap them, drug them, and hold them in Mexico until after the convention was over, then release them unharmed...
Operation QEII is not code-named for the passenger liner but for Her Britannic Majesty. In The Siege of Buckingham Palace by Walter Nelson (Little, Brown; 239 pages; $10.95), a fanatic Baghdad-based group named Bloody Christmas sets out to kidnap the Queen and "strike at the heart of the Western world." In return for her freedom, the guerrillas demand the release of all 156 terrorists held in British, West German and Israeli prisonsplus ?5 million sterling and a jet to Libya. Arabs being all too visible in England, the royal heist is conducted by I.R.A. Provos, members...
...Argentina, Naipaul seems to walk on a decaying planet where a succession of carnivores feed on a gullible mass and a demoralized middle class. It is a place where the grotesque is made to seem normal. In 1972 the inflation rate is 60% a year and rising; urban guerrillas kidnap and rob at will; the Ford Falcons of the secret police snatch people off the streets of Buenos Aires as pedestrians go about their business. Perón returns, as does the embalmed body of Eva, "the blond hair as rich as in the time of health...
...Jurist Guido Galli in a corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when the minority Christian Democratic government of Premier Francesco Cossiga collapsed and plunged the country into what Rome politicians call a crisi al buio: a crisis in the dark. It was the 38th...
...Parnell kidnap the boy? Digging into his record, police found an unsavory history. At 19, after a trial in which a court-appointed psychiatrist called him a "sexual psychopath," Parnell was convicted of sexually abusing an eight-year-old boy and sentenced to three years in San Quentin. Only four days before the trial, Parnell's wife-who later left him-had given birth to a girl. A court order prohibited Parnell from ever having any contact with her, a fact that Mendocino County District Attorney Joseph Allen speculates might have induced him to kidnap children as surrogates...