Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Havana the ransom delegation was welcomed with hand-rubbing expectation. Castro himself saw to the customers, and after 5½ hours of haggling agreed to release 60 men-all of them sick or wounded. As the pathetic captives arrived in Miami, 6,000 weeping exiles tried to sing the Cuban national anthem. The sight of the men choked it off; some were on crutches, one man bravely saluted with his left hand -his right arm had been shot away...
Finally, four days after the star-chamber trial, Castro rendered his verdict on the Bay of Pigs prisoners. The men were to be offered to the U.S. at ransom: $25,000 for an ordinary soldier, $500,000 for each of the three invasion leaders, for a total of $62 million. Otherwise, they faced 30 years at hard labor. The ransom sum ("Indemnity," the Cubans called it) was more than three times the amount Castro originally demanded in his infamous Tractors-for-Prisoners offer last year, and it provided eloquent testimony to Cuba's Communist-caused economic chaos...
Annie's previous adventure showed the U.S. how to handle Castro. A passenger on an airliner "sky-jacked" by unshaven pirates. Annie was taken to the island of Tributo, where General Mustashio Toro held her and her fellow hostages for $30 million ransom. But one of Daddy's aides hanged the General and herded Annie and company through a secret passageway to the Warbucks yacht. There, Daddy declaimed the moral: "I recall Teddy Roosevelt's advice! 'Never shake your fist and then shake your finger! That is the sort of Americanism I think an awful...
...with the heaviest share falling on landlords and plantation owners, who often pay tribute to save their lands from devastation. Assassination is a favored Viet Cong tactic, directed mostly against government officials, schoolteachers, village chiefs and their wives and children. Businessmen and the rich are seized and held for ransom...
...mostly white student body and the faculty of the University of Texas turned against their regents last week in a sharp demand for full integration of the South's biggest campus. In an atmosphere charged with resentment, rebellion and disgust, Chancellor Harry Ransom and President Joseph Smiley found themselves paralyzed by the need to accommodate the segregationist regents and unable to drop racial bars at a campus that plainly wanted them dropped...