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PATTY HEARST Kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army was convicted of armed robbery, and is now a regular on the celebrity circuit...
...terrifying simplicity, Bowman, who was commissioned to build a dam on the outskirts of Tescala, is merely driving to work when he encounters a barricade and is randomly snatched by men in ski-masks, who hustle him off into the mountains. Thorne, representative of the London-based K & R (Kidnap and Ransom), is brought in to handle the case and offer assurances to Peter's wife, Alice (Meg Ryan...
...widespread Middle East war--namely that the Arab armies are in no shape to take on Israel's--the furious race of developments left regional leaders with a creepy hint of that possibility, especially after a new front opened up when Hizballah militiamen in Lebanon breached the border to kidnap three soldiers from Israel. Barak holds Syria, the real power in Lebanon, responsible and said in an interview with TIME that Israelis would "keep for ourselves the right to respond." He added, "We will know when...
...Even in the off season, agents engage in scholarly explorations of some of the more obscure aspects of tax law. Last week, in response to a taxpayer's question, the IRS issued a ruling regarding deductions for a kidnapped child. The child can still be claimed as an exemption, but only in the year of the kidnapping, even if that child's room is maintained and money is spent trying to find him or her in subsequent years. But the IRS is not completely heartless: ransom paid for a kidnap victim is deductible...
...sound like a bizarre theme park, but Farclandia is no fun for many Colombians. The government surrendered it to the guerrillas in 1999 in an effort to start peace talks, but that simply legitimized a safe haven in which the FARC could hide the thousands of kidnap victims it holds at any one time, as well as rustle cattle, collect hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes from the cocaine mafias it allows to operate freely in the territory and launch vicious attacks on army and police outposts across its "borders." Still, says FARC ideologue Alfonso Cano, a bearded former...