Word: ransoming
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...victims have cost their employers small fortunes. The "Vestey interests," a British conglomerate, paid a reported $1,000,000 in December to free the kidnaped head of its Argentine operations. The Argentine manager of Boston's First National Bank was released after the bank paid a $750,000 ransom. Another $1.5 million ransom was reportedly paid for the British president of Argentina's largest cigarette company, who was released last week. His wife, convinced from the start that his company would pay whatever ransom was demanded, went on television to admonish the kidnapers to "give him a comfortable...
...group of radical leftists and accused, along with the U.S. Government, of actively supporting the repressive regime by furnishing materiel and by taking police officials Stateside and training them in the techniques of political manipulation and torture. Santore is not tortured, only politely questioned and held for ransom: the freeing of all Montevidean political prisoners. The government, operating through a paralegal police death squad, rounds up some of the revolutionaries; the others, now badly crippled, vote on Santore's fate. The verdict is to make good on their original threat: execution...
Jewish organizations in the U.S. immediately mounted a massive protest against the Kremlin effort to "ransom" Soviet Jewry, and Capitol Hill responded. Washington Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson announced that he would use most-favored-nation treatment as a legislative weapon against the Soviet exit tax, and the stampede was on. The anti-M.F.N. forces drew broad support that ranges from conservative old cold warriors to liberals who apparently are trying to cater to a supposed "Jewish vote...
...conjure up a variation. He is Edward Shoebridge, a saturnine hunter, a falconer who feels pollution and plastic closing in and coldly uses crime to raise the money to escape to some rustic Scandinavian fortress. His business is kidnaping high political figures in impeccable style. He takes his ransom in uncut diamonds...
...ambassador, Count Karl von Spreti, by Guatemalan guerrillas. Over the past five years, eight U.S. diplomats and embassy officials have been involved in kidnaping incidents. In January, Ambassador to Haiti Clinton Knox and Consul Ward Christensen were seized at gunpoint and released only after the Haitian government paid a ransom of $70,000 and freed twelve political prisoners...