Word: ransoming
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Soon Cámpora's weakness returned to haunt him; Argentina's plague of kidnapings rose, as did the amount of ransom demanded. An even worse blow came last month when a bloody shoot-out between left-and right-wing Peronist factions left 34 dead and 342 wounded, ruining what was to have been a triumphant homecoming for Perón (TIME, July...
...nistas who had turned Juan Perón's homecoming two weeks ago into a bloodbath, leaving 34 dead and 342 wounded. In Buenos Aires and Córdoba, eleven people, including a foreign businessman, have been kidnaped, bringing the total number held by terrorists to 17. Ransom demands, meanwhile, have soared to an astronomical $17 million...
...under threat of further violence. Ford agreed to give $1,000,000 to hospitals and the poor. Within a fortnight of Perón's second homecoming, guerrillas kidnaped a West German clothing manufacturer, the American head of Firestone of Argentina, and a British banker. A $10 million ransom for the three has been demanded. One Buenos Aires businessman groaned about the banker, for whom Peronist guerrillas are asking $8,000,000: "We may lose...
...Express as Augusta delivers an illegal $100,000 ranson to Visconti (her wildly romantic first lover) held captive in Africa. Fortified by the belief that love conquers all, Aunt Augusta cajoles, lies, steals, blackmails, and is deported in the course of her mission. When she finally does deliver the ransom, she collapses hysterically in her now aged lover's arms only to find that he has duped her. The ransom was but a profiteering hoax, and he leaves her stranded on the African shore, her mad efforts to patch together a dream of her youth rendered futile...
...many observers of American Government, the practice of secrecy is as serious a threat to a free society as wiretapping. "Complacency about this problem," declares Vanderbilt University Professor Harry Howe Ransom, "can destroy the nation." In view of Daniel Ellsberg, who should know, people who have access to Government secrets tend to develop an "arrogance and contempt" for people who are not similarly plugged in. It is obvious that this criticism is not limited to the Nixon Administration; one has only to recall the way Lyndon Johnson used to chuckle over the FBI dossiers of friends, foes and the famous...