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...first day Ray has worked with all seven animals. He teaches them to be caught, by making it uncomfortable to run from him and easy to approach him. Yet in the process, he allows the horse the dignity of escape. "You can't just come in and kidnap a horse. They'll always fight back if you do," Ray says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wyoming: Horse and Rider Learn Together | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Denley had shown the agent a contract with a mysterious Dutch organization, the Ansus-Foundation, to overthrow the Surinamese government. He and his henchmen apparently planned to pose as financiers interested in opening a bank and then kidnap several of the country's leftist leaders. The FBI agent later agreed to provide ten mercenaries along with various weapons and join up with the six soldiers of fortune recruited by Denley. Last week FBI and Customs Service agents arrested 14 individuals, including Denley, a former U.S. Customs officer. Agents found 13 handguns, two semiautomatic rifles, two shotguns and 1,000 rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plots: Crossing Up a Coup D'Etat | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

Terrorists "executed" three kidnap victims in Lebanon, tried to blow up an El Al jetliner in London, and tossed firebombs at U.S. targets in Tunisia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorists Strike Back Around the World | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...bodies of three kidnap victims--identified as writer Alec Collett, 64, and teachers Leigh Douglas, 34, and Philip Padfield, 40, all Britons--were dumped on a highway, each shot once in the head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorists Strike Back Around the World | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...guess that's why some self-appointed shock troops of change found it acceptable to kidnap a visiting South African diplomat in a Lowell House room last spring to protest the University's investments in the diplomat's country...

Author: By President - and Jeffrey A. Zucker, S | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

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