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...release from West German prisons of eleven convicted urban guerrillas (including Andreas Baader, co-founder of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang); the freeing of two Palestinian guerrillas from Turkish jails; the transporting of the prisoners to Viet Nam, Somalia or South Yemen; and the payment of $15 million in ransom as well as $43,000 for each of the eleven guerrillas...
...attitude of Schleyer's kidnapers hardened in early October, shortly after Tokyo capitulated to terrorists who had skyjacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Bangladesh and demanded freedom for nine imprisoned "comrades" and $6 million in ransom. After the skyjacking last week, Schmidt began meeting around the clock with the Cabinet and two crisis groups that he had formed to handle the Schleyer kidnaping. As of early this week, his government was still refusing to buckle to the terrorists' demands. Although he has taken a hard line on terrorists, the Christian Democratic opposition has been accusing Schmidt...
...days of John L. Lewis, when the United Mine Workers called a strike it sometimes seemed that a mighty union was holding the entire nation for ransom. Once again a coal strike looms-but if 165,000 U.M.W. members walk out of the pits on Dec. 7, it will be a sign not of union power but of union weakness. The strike would be the biggest of the year, and would get President Carter's program to increase U.S. coal production (the aim is a 66% hike by 1985) off to a most inauspicious start. But the people hurt...
This grisly modus operandi was used in the 1973 abduction of the grandson of Oil Billionaire J Paul Getty who was persuaded to pay $2.8 million in ransom after kidnapers dispatched the boy's right ear to a Rome newspaper. In the Getty and Pianelli cases, as in most Italian kidnappings, the criminals have not been simply political fanatics out to punish the rich, but professional hoods -often Mafia members-seeking high profits...
Young Luppino was relatively fortunate. Of the 218 Italians kidnaped since the Getty abduction in 1973, 27 have vanished or are still in the hands of kidnapers. Ransom demands have risen steadily. In 1973, Italian families paid an estimated $3.5 million to ransom 17 victims. The total so far this year, not including the Pianelli case: $45 million...