Word: kidnapings
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After his meeting with Hussein, Arafat paid a courtesy call on the Soviet ambassador in Amman. As it happened, less than 24 hours later Moscow announced that it had received good news about its own brush with the vagaries of Middle Eastern terror. Three Soviet diplomats kidnaped in Beirut on Sept. 30 had been released in that city, 28 days after the body of a fourth Soviet kidnap victim, Consular Secretary Arkadi Katkov, was found with a bullet through the head. The P.L.O. had nothing to do with the Soviet kidnapings, for which the hitherto unknown Islamic Liberation Organization claimed...
...cannot be defined, and therefore cannot be legislated against. The referendum defines pornography as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/or words." But we cannot condone the implications of that definition, particularly of the word "subordination." While the bill would allow for prosecution of pornographers who kidnap, rape and film women--and this is clearly a good motivation--it would also, presumably, subject to legal action museum and gallery displays, advertisements, and even literary works and other texts taught in schools. And the provision for legal action against anyone "forcing pronography" on another could be interpreted...
...whose career has been saving the U.S. and its friends from all sorts of sinister types. Retiring to a mountaintop in California, he hopes to spend the rest of his days in peaceful pursuits, like raising his motherless daughter. But bad guys being bad guys, they want revenge. They kidnap his child and threaten to kill her unless he assassinates the President of a fictional country in Central America. The rest of the film is devoted to Schwarzenegger's pursuit of his enemies. He shoots them, drops them off cliffs, slits their throats, chops off their arms, breaks their necks...
...ineffective rule. Last May, Buhari ordered the brutal expulsion of 700,000 illegal immigrants from neighboring African states, jailed hundreds of political opponents and muzzled a once aggressive press. He also soured Nigeria's relations with its former colonial master, Britain, with a clumsy attempt in July 1984 to kidnap President Shagari's brother-in-law, former Transport Minister Umaru Dikko, and ship him from London to Lagos in a wooden crate...
...organization, and had been moved from Beirut to Baalbek in the Syrian-dominated Bekaa Valley. This region has been a base for Islamic extremist groups over the past three years, and is thought to be the area where some of the seven American, one British and four French kidnap victims are currently being held...