Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami's International Airport, a stocky, white-haired man wearily faced newsmen. New York Lawyer James B. Donovan was just back from Havana, but he could offer only the haziest account of his effort to ransom 1,113 Cuban prisoners captured by Castro after the collapse of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. "The negotiations haven't broken down," said Donovan. "There are simply some points that must be resolved." He had made "concrete offers" to Castro, and "now we must await resolutions"-meaning wait for Castro's next move...
What was the total dollar value of the package? Donovan declined to say. How much of the ransom was being put up by the U.S. Government? Said Donovan...
...spirited architecture student in Paris with a Left Bank haircut and a razor-thin purse when the Shah beckoned. After two years on the Peacock Throne, Farah, as Washington discovered during the Shah's U.S. trip in April, is charming, poised, and possessed of an Arabian Nights' ransom in emerald and diamond tiaras, earrings and necklaces. She has plunged energetically into social work, started redecorating the royal palaces and, say court officials, has only to smile to earn another tiara from the impassioned Shah...
However, the U.S. Government would not stand in the way of any private efforts to raise the $62 million ransom...
Worse yet. to hold the cops at bay the artnapers had coolly let it be known that they possessed still a third trove of stolen paintings-57 works lifted last July in St.-Tropez. The St.-Tropez paintings had proved to be uninsured and hard to get ransom for, but the gang's threat to destroy them stopped police from interfering with the Cézanne extortion...