Word: kidnapings
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...Chicken Ranch became an accepted extracurricular activity - and the scene of some rites of passage. "If we found out somebody was a virgin," says one A. & M. graduate, "we'd kidnap him, tie him up on the floorboard, and take him to the ranch." So routine were evenings at Edna's that the school began to provide penicillin free...
...Gaddafi came to power. In other spending aimed against Israel, Gaddafi gives at least $125 million a year to Egypt, about $45 million to Syria and perhaps $20 million to Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and other Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas. (Sudan has officially accused Gaddafi of instigating the kidnap-murder of three U.S. and Belgian diplomats in Khartoum last month...
...were accused of "conspiracy to rescue seized property" and "conspiracy to assault or impede a federal officer." Conspiracy charges of late have proved tricky indeed, and the Government has been unable to make them stick in such cases as those of the Chicago Seven and the alleged Kissinger kidnap plotters. In San Diego the jury spent three days poring over the evidence before convicting the ten on varying charges...
...Palestinians suspect that the raid had been designed to kill or kidnap Habash and other P.F.L.P. leaders. For once, Israeli intelligence was at fault; unbeknownst to the spies, the scheduled strategy meeting at the camps had been postponed. Rather than return emptyhanded, the raiding party blew up suspected fedayeen installations before they went home...
...next step for Pincus and his guerrilla band of young suburban terrorists and ghetto scholarship dropouts is to kidnap ten of the nation's leading intellectuals. Here Lelchuk plays it safe by identifying them only as A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and Kovell. The plan is to "de-mandarinize" the elders at a secret New Hampshire hideout. This promising situation is not fulfilled with much imagination or wit. Pincus' fate is equally drab: prison, where he is reduced to suffering from a chronic earache...