Word: kidnaping
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...Israelis sentence the terrorists in their jails to execution if and when terrorists kidnap new hostages? This would render any future kidnaping counterproductive...
...prison breakout attempt that left Black Militant Convict George Jackson dead, along with three guards and two inmate trusties. Their trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse. In 1970 the same building was the scene of the kidnap-shootout that Jackson's brother Jonathan hoped would force George's release from San Quentin. Instead, Jonathan, Judge Harold Haley and two prisoners were killed. Now the question facing a seven-woman, five-man jury is whether the six San Quentin defendants conspired to launch the 1971 break...
...theatre, and consistently tried to reconcile London and the Colonies. Tins enraged General Charles Lee, Continental commander for the southern region, who demanded last month that the Maryland Council "get rid of their damn'd government." The Baltimore Committee of Observation sent a band of men to kidnap Eden, but the Annapolis authorities repelled them. Only in May did the Maryland State Convention finally request that Eden "depart peaceably with all his effects." Eden agreed. A fortnight ago, the entire Annapolis Council of Safety went to take what one witness called "an affectionate leave of their late supreme magistrate...
Because of widespread public alarm, New York gossips concocted wild stories of a Tory plot to kidnap or murder Washington-700 men were supposedly involved, and it was reported that the general narrowly escaped death. Most of these rumors are nonsense, but the facts are disturbing enough...
...World War I by serving tea at the Bellamys and moonlighting as a bus conductor. But lately she has been embroiled in World War II, filming The Eagle Has Landed, in which she plays a British WAC gone awry aiding Michael Caine, a German colonel, in a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. How could the prim Rose of Upstairs switch from kitchenling to quisling? Easy, she says: "I'd do it to anyone for the money...