Word: ransoming
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...since the early days of automobiles, there have been the ordinary passenger cars and, in a class by themselves--the cars designed for racing. Perhaps it is a manifestation of human curiosity and a love of danger, or maybe just an obsession with speed, but in every generation since Ransom E. made his first Olds, a small but dedicated group of people have oriented their lives around one thing--motor racing...
...kidnaped on Oct. 28 outside his club in Amsterdam, remained a shrewd businessman throughout the ordeal. And, as it turned out last week, business-rather than terrorism, as had originally been feared-was the name of the game. By Caransa's account, the kidnapers first demanded a ransom of $16 million. After two days of haggling, Caransa, whose real estate, hotel and other holdings are worth $40 million, wheedled his captors down to $4 million...
When the deal had been set, Caransa sent a note to a law firm, instructing attorneys to arrange for the ransom drop...
...What continues to puzzle police is why the kidnapers would demand payment in a denomination of bills that is 1) hard to assemble in large quantities even at banks, and 2) easily traceable (the police have the serial numbers of all the bills). Thus, while the cops regard the ransom payment as a private business transaction, they do not plan to mark the Caransa case closed until those new mysteries are solved...
...subsequent call demanded the abdication of Queen Juliana as ransom for Caransa. The caller also insisted on the release of West German Terrorist Knut Folkerts from a Maastricht prison cell in southern Holland. Police speculated that Caransa's captors might belong to the same gang of anarchists that kidnaped West German Industrialist Hanns-Mar-tin Schleyer in early September. Schley-er's body was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France, not far from the German border two weeks ago, shortly after West German commandos staged their daring rescue raid on a skyjacked Lufthansa...