Word: ransoming
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...deputy director of the regional center of the U.S. Information Service. The first foreigners to be kidnaped during the latest troubles, they were captured at gunpoint, apparently by leftist Moslems in the territory controlled by the Nasserite Organization Corrective Movement. At week's end there had been no ransom demand or word of their fate...
...some unexplained reason, the S.L.A. did not immediately offer to trade Patty for the pair. Instead, the group demanded that Randolph Hearst ransom his daughter by giving free food to California's poor in a program that could have cost as much as $400 million. When the publisher spent only $2 million, said the document, the S.L.A. became disillusioned about his intentions and never offered to swap prisoners...
...Justice Patrick Cooney: "Such demands have to be resisted. The best protection against such kidnaping is to let the people who carry them out ascertain that they are quite futile exercises." Nonetheless, a Dutch representative of Herrema's firm was ready to pay an undisclosed sum as ransom and fly the kidnapers out of Ireland. Even if the terrorists were to give up on the release of Dugdale and the other prisoners, the government would have to agree to give the kidnapers safe passage abroad...
Screaming, wearing only a blue bathrobe, Patty was dragged from her apartment by three members of the S.L.A., who kicked and struck her fiance Steven Weed with a bottle before stuffing Patty in a car trunk and speeding off. Trying to meet the S.L.A.'s demands for ransom, the Hearsts gave away $2 million worth of food to the poor in the San Francisco Bay Area. As the food was tossed off trucks in neighborhoods of needy people in San Francisco and Oakland, mobs fought angrily for the supplies, then broke bitterly into small-scale rioting when the gifts...
...Margaret Clementi in leading roles. "There are sets that have been dismantled to make room for other ones, actors who have finished their work and left for heaven knows where," lamented the director. While police began an investigation, Italian reporters tried to estimate the size of the anticipated ransom demand. Best guess: $1.5 million...