Word: kidnaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is South America in the '70s, and the situation is even closer to the daily headlines than was the case with The Comedians or The Quiet American. Some hapless Paraguayan guerrillas, stirred by General Stroessner's repressions, cross the border into northern Argentina. They aim to kidnap a visiting American ambassador and hold him against the release of ten political prisoners. But, as one character remarks, "nothing happens as we intend." Acting as his customary farce majeure, Greene has the revolutionaries mistakenly snatch and fruitlessly hold for political ransom poor Charley Fortnum, a gentle, sixtyish, befuddled...
...Chicken Ranch became an accepted extracurricular activity - and the scene of some rites of passage. "If we found out somebody was a virgin," says one A. & M. graduate, "we'd kidnap him, tie him up on the floorboard, and take him to the ranch." So routine were evenings at Edna's that the school began to provide penicillin free...
...Gaddafi came to power. In other spending aimed against Israel, Gaddafi gives at least $125 million a year to Egypt, about $45 million to Syria and perhaps $20 million to Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and other Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas. (Sudan has officially accused Gaddafi of instigating the kidnap-murder of three U.S. and Belgian diplomats in Khartoum last month...
...were accused of "conspiracy to rescue seized property" and "conspiracy to assault or impede a federal officer." Conspiracy charges of late have proved tricky indeed, and the Government has been unable to make them stick in such cases as those of the Chicago Seven and the alleged Kissinger kidnap plotters. In San Diego the jury spent three days poring over the evidence before convicting the ten on varying charges...
...Palestinians suspect that the raid had been designed to kill or kidnap Habash and other P.F.L.P. leaders. For once, Israeli intelligence was at fault; unbeknownst to the spies, the scheduled strategy meeting at the camps had been postponed. Rather than return emptyhanded, the raiding party blew up suspected fedayeen installations before they went home...