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...twice-married father of five children ranging in age from 18 years to five months, I can tell you what goads desperate fathers to kidnap their children: the unjust, unfair prejudice of courts in this country, as well as in the U.S., in awarding custody to Almighty Mom in more than 90% of all cases...
...mind-boggling array of expensive protective instruments is now on the market, ranging from $375 bulletproof vests for executives conducting shareholders meetings to $16,000 electronic tracking systems that help trace a kidnap victim. A particularly nervous tycoon could buy from CCS Communication Control Inc. for $200,000 the security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head...
...invisibility, the S.A.S. destroyed hundreds of Nazi planes on their own airstrips, freed countless Allied prisoners and blew up scores of Axis ammunition dumps. The commandos were also sent on missions to assassinate leading Axis generals. One of the unit's few known failures involved an attempt to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the top German commander in Africa. The Germans soon came to fear the S.A.S. men sporting berets decorated with a winged dagger and the motto WHO DARES WINS...
DIAMOND was our counterdemonstration plan. At the time, we still expected the [Republican] convention to be held in San Diego. I proposed to identify protest leaders, kidnap them, drug them, and hold them in Mexico until after the convention was over, then release them unharmed...
Operation QEII is not code-named for the passenger liner but for Her Britannic Majesty. In The Siege of Buckingham Palace by Walter Nelson (Little, Brown; 239 pages; $10.95), a fanatic Baghdad-based group named Bloody Christmas sets out to kidnap the Queen and "strike at the heart of the Western world." In return for her freedom, the guerrillas demand the release of all 156 terrorists held in British, West German and Israeli prisonsplus ?5 million sterling and a jet to Libya. Arabs being all too visible in England, the royal heist is conducted by I.R.A. Provos, members...