Word: ransoming
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...ransom was to be "an end to United States bombing operations in Southeast Asia and the release of all political prisoners." The organization, "East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives," also intended to blow up underground electrical lines and steam pipes in Washington, Hoover said, "in order to disrupt Federal Government operations...
...Ransom. Less than two months ago, in a dramatic changing of the guard (TIME, Sept. 21), Cushing turned over his diocese to the Most Reverend Humberto S. Medeiros, an activist bishop who had previously headed the diocese of Brownsville, Texas. "The will to live will be gone," predicted an old friend. Said another: "He's not able to do anything else except be Archbishop of Boston...
...James the Apostle for work in Latin America. His ability to raise money for the church at home and abroad was prodigious-a total of more than $100 million in 26 years. Just before Christmas in 1961, he raised $2,900,000 in cash in one day to ransom the Cuban prisoners captured in "dear Jack's" Bay of Pigs invasion...
...attacks, for example, on its power stations, water supply and main roads. But the degree of terror has increased notably with the cop-killing campaign in the U.S. and the murder of hostages in Canada, Argentina, Uruguay and Guatemala. Thus the urban guerrillas have revived the system of diplomatic ransom that flourished from the Dark Ages until the Renaissance, when kings and princes routinely used ambassadors as hostages. As Brandeis Sociologist Richard Sennett puts it: "The terrorism of today is the diplomacy of Henry the Eighth...
...Laporte. As ransom, the terrorists demanded the release of 23 "political" prisoners, safe conduct for them to Cuba or Algeria, and $500,000 in gold bullion...