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Word: kidnaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next step for Pincus and his guerrilla band of young suburban terrorists and ghetto scholarship dropouts is to kidnap ten of the nation's leading intellectuals. Here Lelchuk plays it safe by identifying them only as A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and Kovell. The plan is to "de-mandarinize" the elders at a secret New Hampshire hideout. This promising situation is not fulfilled with much imagination or wit. Pincus' fate is equally drab: prison, where he is reduced to suffering from a chronic earache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heckzapoppin | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

Their plan was dangerous they were going to kidnap the Daily News man on his way to the printer and substitute the take front page for the real article...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Yale Forfeits: Harvard Triumphs in THE Game | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

...would be inconsistent with the nature of a ceasefire that either party would continue to assasinate, torture, kidnap or arrest suspect members of the opposition. If the U.S. and North Vietnam have not yet agreed to a "political" ceasefire in the South then their new agreement will not last. The present Vietnam War started because of the repressive policies of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. North Vietnam entered actively into the war only after the U.S. dispatched troops to protect the tottering Diem regime from southern insurgents...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: The Eagle and the Fox | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

...diplomatic offices in New York City, Ottawa, Montreal, Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Kinshasa as well as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; fortunately, all were discovered before they could do any damage. Security was strengthened around Israeli offices throughout the world; British police set up a special anti-kidnap patrol; in New York City, visitors to the Israeli U.N. mission communicated through locked doors by intercom and closed-circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: And Now, Mail-a-Death | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Died. Anthony Hauck Jr., 71, former New Jersey prosecutor whose rigorous, unrelenting cross-examination led to the 1935 conviction and eventual execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnap case; of a heart attack; in Flemington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 25, 1972 | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

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