Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to hitch ourselves to a political thing, then we don't have any choice." To add to the nerve-racking situation, the choir was living in a dingy hotel only just inside the U.S. sector boundary, and momentarily expecting a Communist attempt to kidnap them. Frau Ursula-Sonja Nehl thought that a packet of sandwiches she found in her room had been poisoned...
Perfectly nice guys who would never steal automobiles, kidnap small children, or rob Brink's have been caught between the jagged edges of this difference of opinion. If they had paused to ruminate before filching books from Lamont or Widener shelves, it might have occurred to them that the University must take more than a dim view of this sort of activity. It's not just the attrition that threatens to topple the University Library from its position among the most book filled in the world; officials in University Hall must fight encroachment of that doubtful ethic underlying book appropriation...
...Russians offered the G.I.s 7,000 schillings ($269) to kidnap Eder, who was a night watchman in a Vienna radio-manufacturing plant and, in spy parlance, a "torpedo," i.e., an agent who informed against the Russians. For a while he had also informed the Russians about the West, but the Reds discovered that he took pay from both sides. They decided that he had better be put out of the way. Frankey and Abel accepted the commission. They lured Eder into a borrowed jeep by telling him that he was wanted by U.S. authorities. After Eder had been delivered...