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Last April a jury in Harrisburg, Pa., was unable to reach a verdict on whether the Rev. Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister had been guilty of an elaborate conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger, blow up heating tunnels in Washington's federal buildings and raid draft boards. The only offense the jury agreed upon was that Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth had smuggled letters in and out of the federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa., during the summer of 1970 when Berrigan was imprisoned there...
...hostages by releasing prisoners. "We believe that blackmail leads only to more blackmail," says an Israeli foreign-ministry official. "If we release 250 prisoners today that will only encourage the terrorists to demand more prisoners tomorrow. And what would stop them from asking for political ransom? They could kidnap Israelis somewhere in the world and demand that we get out of the Golan Heights or the West Bank...
...Schiff, pointed out a disturbing argument for executing Okamoto after all: "As long as the Japanese murderer is in Israeli hands, he becomes an operational objective, an invitation for murder and extortion against Israel and its citizens. In order to free Okamoto the Red Army is liable to kidnap Israeli hostages...
Adding to Turkey's political malaise is the increasing activity of left-wing urban guerrilla groups, many of them composed of students or graduates from the universities. The guerrillas last year carried out a campaign of violence that culminated in the kidnap-murder of Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom. Terrorist Leader Mahir Cayan and a cadre of guerrillas from an organization called the Turkish People's Liberation Army were convicted of that crime and were in Istanbul's Maltepe Prison awaiting final sentencing. But they escaped four months ago, kidnaped three NATO radar experts serving...
...August 1970, Jackson's younger brother Jonathan, 17, tried to kidnap a judge and four others from the Marin County, Calif., courthouse. He reportedly said that he meant to use his hostages to bargain for release of the Soledad Brothers. In the shootout that followed, the judge, young Jackson and two of his accomplices were killed. About a year later, George Jackson, then 30, was fatally shot at San Quentin in what prison authorities called an escape attempt. Last week, ironically, Drumgo, 26, and Clutchette, 29, were acquitted of the Soledad guard's murder by an all-white...