Word: ransoming
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...kidnapers' intention had been to embarrass their government, they could count the operation a spectacular success. But if their chief object had been to collect the $400,000 ransom that they had demanded, the crime clearly had not paid. At no point was there any inclination by Turkish or U.S. authorities to hand over the money. Their attitude reflects a growing determination to discourage future kidnapings rather than protect unfortunate captives...
...last week and sentenced to life imprisonment; three other suspects have still to face trial. Was the government right in refusing to yield to the kidnapers' demands? According to a Gallup poll released last week, Canadians agreed by nearly 8 to 1 that a government should not pay ransom...
Apparently worried that Fly might die, the Tupamaros seized an Uruguayan cardiologist and ordered him to examine their captive. Then, abandoning their demands for $1,000,000 in ransom, they released Fly. Still in Tupamaros' hands is British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson, who also has a coronary condition...
...shown in movie theaters in 1969. Originally, the plot revolved round the adolescent daughter of a European millionaire who was apparently kidnaped by a gang of kinky criminals (including Rita Moreno, Richard Boone and Marlon Brando) and carried off to a deserted beach house, where she was held for ransom, threatened sexually and tortured by members of the gang. Cornfield's last scene, however, implied that perhaps the girl's whole story was just the momentary, erotic fantasy of a troubled teenager. Universal trimmed the sex, cut out the sadism and obliterated the ending. Instead, they added several...
...year-old Zanzibar Asian girls to marry black Revolutionary Council members, including himself. In Equatorial (formerly Spanish) Guinea, following a business dispute with a West German pump manufacturer, President Francisco Macias Nguema seized the industrialist's wife last month and released her only two weeks ago for a ransom...