Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louvre's famous Card Players, which alone is valued at more than $1,000,000. What could the thieves possibly do with such recognizable loot? The police saw only one answer. The Riviera thieves were apparently a new breed of felon: paintnapers, who would hold the Cezannes for ransom...
...have been appointed by Diem or his brother because of their personal loyalty rather than their efficiency, and all too often they have taken advantage of their position to extort money from the peasants, throw local merchants into jail, nominally on suspicion of Communist sympathizing, in order to extract ransom. Thus, when the Viet Cong contrive the murder of some local official, the villagers frequently hail them as liberators...
...expected to dispose of easily recognized works. Reputable dealers and patrons would shun them. There was no insurance company to bargain with, since the city had no funds for $30,000 annual premiums that would have been necessary. The burglars' only hope of reward seemed to be in ransom, and Saint-Tropez has no blood money to spare...
...businesswoman. "But if we kick in our chips over Berlin, we might as well kick in the whole pot. The effort has to be made somewhere, risk or no risk, and it might as well be over Berlin." To show weakness in Berlin, said Miami Hotel Executive Carl H. Ransom Jr., is only "to give way to something that eventually will eat you up. You lose a little here and a little there, and you wake up and you're lost." Said Wilkie Hanson, a New Jersey businessman: "If we get out of one place we'll have...
Letters by the thousands rolled in to U.S. editors and Congressmen-and they were overwhelmingly against the exchange. Congress itself was sharply opposed. Balanced against such feelings was the evidence that Castro's ransom demands had boomeranged against him as far as Latin American sentiment was concerned: national committees were gathering funds to rescue the Cuban invaders in a dozen Latin American states, and the whole affair had finally convinced thousands of Latinos, at long last, that Fidel Castro was in fact a Communist criminal...