Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emotional plea to the kidnapers. Graziella, he said, "is a delightful little girl, an innocent little girl who is life itself. Please don't let her suffer too much." Ortiz-Patińo, whose family fortune is estimated at $300 million, was reported ready to pay a large ransom for his daughter's release...
...wealthy Turin industrialist The child was seized from his stroller by two men as his grandmother wheeled him home from a park. Before the accompanying guard could reach his revolver, he was clubbed and then blinded by a chemical that one of the kidnapers sprayed in his face. The ransom demand, thought to be the highest in Italian history: $11.3 million...
This grisly modus operandi was used in the 1973 abduction of the grandson of Oil Billionaire J Paul Getty who was persuaded to pay $2.8 million in ransom after kidnapers dispatched the boy's right ear to a Rome newspaper. In the Getty and Pianelli cases, as in most Italian kidnappings, the criminals have not been simply political fanatics out to punish the rich, but professional hoods -often Mafia members-seeking high profits...
...hands brushing back his unkempt white mane. And his poetry revealed the same confiding voice that animated his conversation. The controlled metrics of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951) show the influence of Lowell's mentors, Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom. In Imitations (1961), freely licensed translations of European poets, and in The Old Glory, a trilogy of plays based on stories by Melville and Hawthorne, Lowell employed a more conventional rhetoric than in the poems about his private experience. But it was in Life Studies, For the Union Dead...
Every so often, Palestinian coffers have been replenished with income extracted by terrorism. In December 1975 a group-working with the mysterious superterrorist "Carlos"-invaded an OPEC meeting in Vienna, killed three people and took 81 hostages. The hostages were gradually released in return for a $25 million ransom paid jointly by Saudi Arabia and Iran. The loot was split, $5 million for Carlos and $20 million for the Palestinians. The Palestinians also claim to make $5 million a year operating an illegal drug market inside Israel, using Oriental Jews as pushers...