Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Al-Ban managed to escape, he claimed, he witnessed a sickening display of savagery. "The Iraqis took a six-year-old girl as hostage," he said, and demanded a car and cash as ransom. "The parents gave them what they wanted. The Iraqis told them to come to the police station and asked them, 'Is this your child?' When they said yes, the Iraqis shot her dead in front of them...
...radio-controlled decoy buck. West Virginia's department of natural resources has sent the dummy deer into the bush just twice -- but that was enough to ensnare 11 illegal highway hunters. "We try to place it where an individual would be looking for a deer," says DNR Sergeant Kaven Ransom...
RoboDeer does have some defects. His head has blown a fuse or two, and his hide has been perforated by bullets. But while the DNR readily displays the deer, it insists on keeping one detail absolutely secret: the location of its motor. DNR's Ransom would say only, "It is in an area that typically would not be shot...
...kind of ransom on my dad," he said. "It's their money...
...hostages, including women and children, wasting away under an embargo imposed by their own government? Bush and his inner circle are banking on their belief that most Americans, having seen what happened in Iran and Lebanon, now agree it is a mistake to let U.S. policy be the ransom for hostages' lives. Bush, explains an Administration official, "is not going to sacrifice the interests of 250 million Americans in an attempt to buy the freedom of 2,500 Americans...