Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were fired from the thick bush at the nine tourists traveling by truck from Victoria Falls, the most spectacular waterfall in Africa, to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. Armed men ran to the vehicle, took the six male tourists as hostages and gave the tour guide a ransom note addressed to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. The message said that the kidnapers would "blast these kids" by week's end unless Mugabe released from jail two former leaders in the guerrilla army of his rival, Joshua Nkomo. The note was signed Zipra Forces," the name of Nkomo...
...Unlike most of her fellow captives. Swift ha! been through a hostage situation before. As an officer on the Philippine desk when the U S ambassador was taken hostage. Swift sat on the outside and watched the U S response. "I knew it was U.S. government policy not to ransom hostages." Swift says, adding. "The students would sit there yelling "Give back the Shah" and I would sit there trying to explain why my country would never give the Shah back...
...ransom requests appear, brought by a previously unknown woman who identifies herself as "Giovanni's girl," the case grows more complex--as it should, but the plot, instead of thickening, becomes distressingly obtuse. Young workers approach Primo with furtive suggestions, their role as friends or captors remains unclear, not only to him but to the viewer as well The labyrinth never opens onto a clear space, and the ambiguities and doublecrosses are doubly frustrating because they are so obviously intentional. Too simplistic to captivate without a fitting denouement, the unsolved mystery fails equally much as a pure intellectual exercise...
...family that the abductors had beaten him and warned him not to "mess with the President's daughter." He also told them that his "rescue" had been staged. The Communist underground, meanwhile, issued a statement denying responsibility. It noted that Manotoc's captors had sent two ransom notes, and pointed out that kidnaping for ransom had not been one of its tactics...
...simple and scary enough: the son of a Parmesan factory owner (Ugo Tognazzi) agonizes through a search for his son, kidnaped by terrorists of the left. Primo Spaggiari's industry and instinct have made him a millionaire. But as time drags on, and Primo realizes that meeting the ransom demand will mean closing his factory, he begins to believe that everyone around him - his son's girlfriend (the darkly sensual Laura Morante), a radical worker-priest (Victor Cavallo), maybe even Primo's patrician wife (Anouk Aimee) - is involved in the abduction. Conspiracy or paranoia? Primo says...