Word: kidnaping
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...Ehrlichman and three other defendants were on trial for their roles in the Ellsberg break-in on the second floor of the building. After a conference with their attorney, the two men, both of whom were serving lengthy sentences on charges ranging from armed robbery to conspiracy to kidnap, were returned to their cells in the basement. A short time later, Gorham reached through the bars and pointed a gun at a federal marshal. Using the marshal's keys to open a locker filled with weapons, the two convicts began what Wilkerson later called "an instant replay...
...West German law locksteps to its literal conclusion, a Nazi-hunter will go to jail while the convicted war criminal she tried to kidnap and spirit away to France will stay free. The hunted Nazi is Kurt Lischka, 65, the wartime Gestapo chief in Paris, who was tried in absentia by a French court in 1950 and sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the deportation and extermination of 100,000 French Jews. The hunter is Beate Klarsfeld, 35, German-born Protestant wife of a French Jew, who moved to Paris in 1960 and has made a career...
...violence, Perón looked the other way, since both rightists and leftists proclaim allegiance to him. But one key element in his effort to keep the country together is continued economic improvement, or at least stability, which depends in no small measure on foreign investment. Many of the kidnap victims have been foreign businessmen, such as U.S. Exxon Executive Victor Samuelson, 36, who was released last week after 144 days of captivity and after his firm paid $14.2 million hi ransom. Last November a U.S. Ford executive was killed in an apparent kidnap attempt. With such rampant violence seemingly...
...Great American Theme flourishing in recent film and fiction concerns the menopausal U.S. male who seems to be burdened by mortgages, a dismal sex life and fallen arches. This sad creature takes the holiday of his dreams, literally, combining hunting and fishing with other manly pursuits, e.g., rape, torture, kidnap and/or murder. Optional extras are sexual deviation, castration and severe mutilation, variously featured in such creations as James Dickey's Deliverance and David Osborn's more recent novel Open Season, a dreadful account of three top Detroit executives who each year put a man and a woman...
...Warm. Meanwhile, Trib Reporter Harley Sorensen, 42, set out in his car on the third night after the kidnaping to try to locate the ransom "drop" point. Following instructions from his city desk via a short-wave receiver, Sorensen cruised through the drop area until he saw a car that he had been following stop by a phone booth on a lonely road. He presumed that it was the agent impersonating Mrs. Kronholm's husband, and he pulled his auto into a side road, hoping to witness what few reporters ever have: the drop-off and possible pickup...