Word: ransoming
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...ample reason for suspicion. In 1974 Irish Republican Army sympathizers stole 19 paintings from the mansion and attempted to exchange them for $1.25 million and the transfer of several colleagues from English prisons to jails in Northern Ireland. The ransom was refused. Eight days later, the works were recovered. This time, seven of the less valuable paintings were found abandoned the afternoon of the theft. Still missing are masterpieces by Gainsborough, Goya, Rubens and Vermeer...
...some teachers that there was to be a surprise birthday party, lured 167 schoolchildren and adults into a first-grade classroom, where they stood at gunpoint in frightened silence. Declaring that he had enough explosives to "wipe out Cokeville," Young told Principal Max Excell that he wanted a whopping ransom of $2 million a hostage, as well as a talk with President Reagan. "Why Cokeville?" asked Excell. Replied Young: "Because it's a nice little Mormon town where people won't let anything happen to their kids...
...police surrounded the school and townspeople scrambled to raise ransom money, Doris tried to comfort the scared and tired children by bringing in library books, crayons and a television set. Some youngsters wept; a few vomited into the classroom sink. After a 2 1/2-hour standoff, White left to go to the bathroom, handing his wife, who was standing in the center of the room, two bottles of gasoline wired to a battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash...
...military command has long been suspected of shielding officers from charges of involvement in the death squads that carried out tens of thousands of kidnapings and killings. But the code of silence has broken down since police cracked a ring that kidnaped wealthy people and held them for ransom. Among those under arrest is Rodolfo Lopez Sibrian, a former national guard lieutenant who was accused, but never convicted, of ordering the execution of two American landreform specialists and a Salvadoran colleague...
...brandishing guns, forced their way into the house and began ransacking it for valuables. Then they started to make off with Guinness's daughter Gillian, 23, before acceding to the request of her mother Jennifer that they take her instead. As the hoods left, they demanded a $2.6 million ransom...