Word: ransoming
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...Heaven help, our country if the Symbionese Liberation Army is allowed to succeed in this terrible Robin Hood effort to force the rich to share with the poor. The Hearst kidnaping is a gross crime and the ransom merely an excuse for a revolutionary group of pitifully misled people to take the law in their own hands. Why can't they see the far-reaching effects of their revenge? Without obedience to law there can be no order or justice in life...
...possible targets is no longer confined to the affluent. Murphy, 40, a man of comfortable but hardly gilt-edged circumstances, was apparently singled out for his prominence as a newsman and his importance to the Constitution's corporate owner. Thus when a demand of $700,000 for his ransom was made, it was clearly directed not to his family but to his employer, Cox Enterprises of Dayton. That sort of distinction vastly expands the number of Americans with cause to look over their shoulder should the kidnaping phenomenon burgeon...
Murphy's employer agreed immediately to the ransom demand, and next day the kidnapers' plan went off with suspense-novel precision. Still blindfolded, the editor was driven from his second night's lodging-which he thought was "an out-of-state motel"-toward Atlanta. At intervals, the kidnapers stopped to make telephone calls-once to find a go-between, who turned out to be a 17-year-old high-school senior named Pam Grant, another time to let a friend of Minter's hear Murphy's voice...
...more than 13 months, three persons, including a would-be hijacker, were killed last week at the Baltimore Washington International Airport.) Dallas Psychiatrist David G. Hubbard, who helped create the celebrated "skyjacker profile," which has contributed much to reducing aerial hijackings, advocates a "federal law prohibiting payment of ransom in all cases involving kidnaping." He argues that potential kidnapers will be deterred only if they know in advance that ransom is highly unlikely. Billionaire J. Paul Getty took that hard stance after the kidnaping in Italy last July of his grandson Eugene Paul Getty II, 17. Fearing that his other...
...revolt aboard the slave ship transporting him to the U.S. The New York Post noted last week that the plot of Black Abductor, a novel of politics and pornography published in 1972, closely resembles the Hearst kidnaping. In the book, an heiress-coed named Patricia is held for ransom by a racially mixed group of radicals in America's "first political kidnaping...