Word: ransoming
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...abide student dissent, even the relatively bland variety found in the American Southwest. He is convinced that the survival of public universities is at stake, a feeling that many other citizens share. In the past four months, he has engineered the abrupt departures of six administrators, including Chancellor Harry Ransom and President (Austin campus) Norman Hackerman-both of whom, it is thought, were too soft on student militancy to suit Erwin. The latest casualty: Dr. John R. Silber, 43, one of the country's leading philosophers, who was fired as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, though...
...latest development is that the squares who exploit the hip are in turn being exploited by the radicals. It is a logical development, considering the precedents: black militants have demanded their cut from church collections, and radical N.Y.U. students last spring captured the computer, demanding $100,000 ransom to be used as Black Panther bail money...
While Kern has appealed, a posse of friendly citizens has already galloped to the rescue. Last week more than 2,000 Texans showed up at a $5-a-head benefit barbecue, and other contributions are coming in to eke out the ransom on the high sheriff's financial future. There was no popular movement to compensate for the past injustice perpetrated on Whirl...
Yesterday morning, students at N.Y.U. seized three buildings, including the Courant Institute of Mathematics, which houses the university's computer center, demanding $100.000 ransom for the Black Panther Defense Fund before releasing the buildings...
...State Department has tacitly encouraged Latin American governments to make settlements with kidnapers, but some U.S. diplomats take a more militant line. "If we don't declare a no-ransom policy," says one Foreign Service officer, "diplomats will withdraw until they and their families live in armed colonies." Nor is the patience of Latin American governments unlimited. During the Elbrick episode, one hardline Brazilian military man suggested that the 15 prisoners demanded as ransom by the rebels be taken to a public square, where one would be shot every hour until Elbrick was released. Argentina's decision...