Word: ransoming
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George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology and 1967 winner of the Nobel prize in Medicine, voiced his disapproval of the "ransom" which educated persons must pay the Soviet government in order to emigrate. He was one of 21 Nobel Laureates to urge the repeal of the Soviet Head Tax in an advertisement in the October 1 edition of The New York Times...
...Skyjackings: 39 aircraft and their passengers held for ransom of one sort or another, and 13 frustrated attempts. Nine skyjackers were killed and two committed suicide. Three pilots and seven bystanders also died...
...applicants, expected to number 5,000. When Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada insisted that Canada pay East African Airways a kickback of 20% on every fare, the Canadians decided to make the airlift free. Explained one indignant diplomat: "We would rather pay for the whole thing ourselves than pay ransom to Amin...
...Lambert Airport. He got into his 1972 Cadillac convertible and crashed it into an American Airlines 727 jet airliner in a foolhardy attempt to stop a skyjacking then in progress. The skyjacker and his hostage crew merely switched to another plane and took off with $502,500 in ransom (he parachuted safely, but was later arrested). Even so, Hanley was seen by some as a courageous citizen acting boldly to stop a crime...
International Jewish leaders, meeting in emergency session in London earlier this month, unanimously refused to pay a penny of ransom, rejecting "the right of any government to turn people into chattels that can be bought and sold." The Israeli Parliament called the levies "an insult to humanity." In Russia, too, Jewish leaders are determined that no ransom shall be paid, hoping that U.S. trade boycotts of the U.S.S.R. will instead persuade the Kremlin to rescind the decree...