Word: kidnapings
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...half English, half Paraguyan and not quite anything. Although he'd rather keep to himself, he gets thrown into an inadvertant friendship with the English consul Charlie Fortnum (Michael Caine), and entangled by the demands of two old friends, now Paraguayan revolutionaries, who pressure him to help them kidnap a visiting American dignitary. Playing on Parr's apparent feeling for his father, a political prisoner in Paraguay, the two convince him to use his connections to determine the visiting official's schedule...
...military parade ground in the capital, the Pope stressed that the government still had to improve its human rights record. Said John Paul: "When you trample a man, when you violate his rights, when you commit flagrant injustices against him, when you submit him to torture, break in and kidnap him or violate his right to life, you commit a crime and a grave offense against...
...conflicted arena. He is a member of a subculture, "business people in transit, growing old in planes and airports." His job: risk analysis of the executives in multinational corporations. But how does one determine the actuarial odds in the Persian Gulf? What is the revolution quotient in Bahrain, the kidnap potential of Beirut? Like expatriates before him, Axton, recently separated from his wife and son, oscillates between the thrill of exotica and the lost comforts of home. One of the Athens-based corporate transients with whom Axton spends ouzo-drenched evenings finds Americans "eerie people." They are "genetically engineered...
...defendants a permanent niche in law-school textbooks, plus a place on death row. The reason is an apparently unique question of double jeopardy. It arises from the fact that while Becky Heath's body was found in La Grange, Ga., her murderers picked her up, or perhaps kidnaped her, from her home 45 miles away in Phenix City, Ala. And after some of the defendants had confessed or pleaded guilty in La Grange, the prosecutor across the border in Phenix City announced that he also planned to try them, on conspiracy and kidnap-murder charges, and would make...
...tear ends and the mend begins. The duke, for instance, did visit Germany in 1937, where he took tea with Field Marshal Goring and was photographed with Hitler. And he did lounge in neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal presence crashing through a mirror, trying to hide inside his own image...