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...would even discuss the prisoners. "It always comes back to the same thing," Nixon said in a moment of exasperation. "If we end our involvement and set a date, they will agree to discuss prisoners-not to release them." Then, last week, the Communists suddenly offered the captives for ransom-and thus created a major dilemma for the Administration...
...them raped me." Another teen-age girl in a Tripura camp told how she was raped by 13 West Pakistani soldiers before escaping. Other girls have reportedly been taken from fleeing families to be sold as prostitutes to the soldiers, particularly if their fathers could not pay a ransom for them...
According to an official who has toured the border, Pakistani troops and their anti-Hindu supporters are demanding $140 a person before letting family members leave East Pakistan. Lacking only $25 of the ransom for his wife, one man pleaded: "Beat me for the rest." They let his wife go after he was beaten on the temple with a bamboo stick until he lost...
...western. This time round, Big John plays a robustly aging paterfamilias who has been separated from his wife (who else but Maureen O'Hara?) lo these 18 years. When a band of merciless marauders led by Richard Boone kidnaps Wayne's grandson and demands a million dollars ransom (in $20 bills, please), Maureen swallows her pride and sends for the Duke. As soon as he shows up, both the child's safety and a predictable quality of brawny, easygoing entertainment are guaranteed...
...most warlike and trouble-some section. In March a former state governor and PRI chief was assassinated there by left-wing terrorists. On April 22 a group calling itself the "Comite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" announced that if a Guerrero coffee millionaire did not pay 350,000 pesos ransom, his son would be executed. With the demand the group cited the names of six campesinos for whose murder the millionaire is allegedly responsible. On April 27 government agents arrested six suspects in the plot. Guerrero's governor and three top officials were killed in a helicopter crash on April...