Word: kidnappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight defendants are now charged - in one count of conspiracy-with plotting to destroy Selective Service files, blow up heating tunnels in Washington, D. C., and kidnap Henry Kissinger '50, special assistant to President Nixon...
...their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic Chic: 125 guests (including Producer-Director Harold Prince, Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Cartoonist-Playwright Jules Feiffer) raised some $35,000 to help defend Father Philip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, and the other six antiwarriors accused of plotting to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger and blow up some of the federal heating system. For some reason, nobody from the press was invited...
...free Cuba from Spain, the fairest of all heroines to North Americans was a rebel named Evangelina Cisneros-"this tenderly nurtured girl," the New York Journal mourned, "imprisoned at eighteen among the most depraved Negresses of Havana." In the flesh, Evangelina was a bloodthirsty lass who tried to kidnap a Spanish officer, but no matter. The Journal had her smuggled out of prison disguised as a sailor and exhibited her triumphantly at an open-air reception in Madison Square. A half-century later came Fidel ("I am not a Communist") Castro, briefly a hero of U.S. journalism during the black...
...defendants are charged with conspiring to destroy Selective Service files, blow up heating tunnels in Washington, D. C., and kidnap Henry Kissinger '50, special assistant to President Nixon...
...Dwyer noted that J. Edgar Hoover had prejudiced the defendants' rights to a fair trial earlier, when he announced in November-before any indictment had been issued-that the Berrigans and others were plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger and hold him until the U. S. stopped the bombing in Southeast Asia...