Word: kidnapping
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Further enraging Californians were Singleton's claims to innocence and his absurd threat of a forcible-kidnap complaint against Vincent. (She won $2.56 million from him in a civil suit, but he had no funds.) When Singleton moved in 1988 to his native Florida, the reception was equally hostile. A Tampa car dealer offered him $5,000 to get out of the state, and a firebomb exploded on his lawn. He had more luck later in Orient Park, where he moved into a house owned by his family. Some neighbors were ignorant of his past. Others felt sure Singleton...
...wave of separatist violence is in the offing. As mourners in Madrid and Granada commemorated the victims of two earlier slayings, a gunman shot Francisco Arratibel in the Basque city of Toloso during a carnival celebration. Arratibel had admitted earlier that he served as a go-between for citizens kidnapped by ETA and said that he was still on their hit list after surviving two previous assassination attempts. His murder came only hours after a car bomb exploded in Granada, killing one man and destroying a four-story apartment building. Shortly thereafter, a 68-year-old Supreme Court judge...
...help me. You know there were other people accused with me of a conspiracy to kidnap the crown prince. Three or four of them were just killed, and there was one, who comes from a very poor background and never had connections or education or anything--he spent ten years in jail. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations knew of me and adopted me. But this other man was not released for such a long time. That always happened in Nepal: the main leaders [of a rebellion] were not killed, but innocent people who threw a bomb here...
...There's also a bad reason for it; she's doing her best to deny--or at least minimize--her highly inconvenient condition. It is more than Manny, patient and practical as she is, can cope with. What these kids need is a surrogate mom. So they decide to kidnap...
...Laurel (Aleksa Palladino), according to convention hereafter referred to as "Manny" and "Lo," survive through shoplifting, house-breaking-and-sleeping-in, and the liberal use of their deceased mother's station wagon. When Lo gets undeniably pregnant, the spunky pair adds a bigger crime to their misdemeanors and kidnap a staid ex-nurse (Mary Kay Place) incongruously behind the counter at one of those sickeningly precious baby supplies stores. They then hole up at an abandoned country house. Barring some frenzied running around at the end, most of the film takes place there amidst woodsy surroundings (where, inexplicably, a seemingly...