Word: kidnaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After an abortive attempt to kidnap Princess Anne last year, bulletproof limousine windows and armed drivers were urged upon the royal family-and quietly turned down. Northern Ireland, which seethes with religious civil war, presents the major security nightmare. No member of the royal family has visited the province since 1966, and on the rare occasions when a Prime Minister or Cabinet officer travels to Ulster, security is essentially military, provided by legions of armed, uniformed troops...
...days, one of the nation's most storied families had oscillated between frustration and faith, resignation and hope. It was the kind of roller-coaster existence all relatives of kidnap victims must endure, but for the Randolph Hearsts, somehow, everything about the ordeal seemed more extreme...
...flagship of the eight-paper Hearst chain and a paper with family ties to the case, those exclusives have been rare. From the day the kidnap story was broken by the nearby Oakland Tribune until six months ago, the paper remained a compulsory half-step behind everyone else. The Examiner discreetly made no mention in its initial stories that Patty had been living with Steven Weed, and as recently as July failed to report a meeting between her parents and the Jack Scotts, a get-together that was widely covered elsewhere...
...lead the people away from the captivity of their ignorance and fear. Accordingly, in exchange for laundering and woodchopping, they arrange to have the girl educated by a nearby white family. Convinced that Treemonisha's learning is a threat to them, Zodzetrick and his fellow conjurers kidnap her for a night of voodoo-like terror. Rescued by her friend Remus (disguised as a scarecrow), Treemonisha astonishes everyone by urging forgiveness. "You will do evil for evil, if you strike them, you know," she tells her people. They understand and acclaim Treemonisha as their leader...
Recent years have also brought political kidnaping to the U.S. The most striking example is Patty Hearst, who was seized in February 1974 by the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army. The group's chief demand was that her wealthy father, Publisher Randolph Hearst, finance a $2 million free-food program for the poor, which was carried out. Patty Hearst may be the first major kidnap victim to end by making common cause with her captors, and the FBI is still pursuing her. The Hearst case took another odd turn last week when FBI Informant Walter Scott, brother of Sports...