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...slated to make a deposition in the civil suit on Jan. 18. The star's lawyers faced three unsavory options: let Michael talk and possibly strengthen the prosecution's case against him; have him take the Fifth Amendment and a severe public relations hit; or pay the king's ransom. All Feldman had to do was let the clock tick and the meter run up. Sure enough, Jackson's team got the deposition postponed for a week, by which time negotiations for a settlement were well advanced. Now that the deal has been approved, he won't have to testify...
However, Radebe warned that the whiteConservative Party and the black Inkatha FreedomParty "are holding our country ransom by theirthreats of violence and civil...
After a dramatic five-day pursuit, Russian security forces captured four masked gunmen who kidnapped 11 students, a teacher and a bus driver from their school at Rostov-on-Don. The kidnappers, who collected from the Russian government a ransom of $10 million in U.S. currency, forced two military pilots to fly them in a helicopter to the Caucasus Mountains. Using a massive, special forces-style operation to track the kidnappers, authorities captured all four of them and recovered most of the ransom...
...America, far fewer -- 3,200 to 4,600 minors a year -- are seized by strangers. Most victims are teenagers; contrary to media coverage, a disproportionate number are black or Hispanic. Only 300 of the abductions are classic kidnappings involving overnight captivity, transport of more than 50 miles, and ransom or murder. The number of kidnap-murders has fluctuated between 50 and 150 a year for at least 17 years. Allen estimates that 1993 will...
These things we learn in due course: that Vito's sole surviving relative is a small-time crook in Rome; that the dead boy in the cave had been kidnapped by Vito's family and was being held for ransom; that the family's slayers were members of a rival clan (though their precise motives remain obscure). Vito catches glimpses of the dead boy's parents on TV, making anguished pleas for his return. Eventually he feels compelled to make his way to them, and attempts to crawl into their son's bed, into his very life. The moviemakers note...