Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...I.R.A. set him up. After getting out of jail in 1977, he returned to New York on his own, but was pressed back into I.R.A. service. He says he was ordered to kidnap Dan Flanagan, who owns the chain of Blarney Stone bars in Manhattan, and hold him for ransom. He told the I.R.A. that he had agreed only to gather intelligence on Flanagan. Then McMullen heard that the I.R.A. planned to send a squad from Belfast to kill him, and he went into hiding...
...larger than Massachusetts. The government of President Carlos Humberto Romero has been locked in combat with three well-organized bands of leftist terrorists. One such group, the Armed Forces of National Resistance, has raised $40 million in the past two years by kidnaping foreign executives and holding them for ransom. Even more threatening from the government's standpoint is the widespread support won by the 70,000-member Popular Revolutionary Bloc, a broad-based movement that occupied the cathedral in San Salvador last May, triggering an attack by police that resulted in the deaths of 23 protesters...
...Pilot McLemore, in the meantime, was being held in a goat-killing pen by the Indians, who were trying to figure out from whom they could demand a ransom for his release. Before leaving Colombia, Rogers received a scrawled message from McLemore: "I am safe and would like to turn myself in but I need help too. Let me know what to do. Roy McLemore...
...Last week, the day after talking to McLemore on the phone, Everitt sent him a note: "If you want to get out of here alive, be ready to go at 5 o'clock." Everitt then sent word to the Indians that he would hand over $100,000 in ransom in return for McLemore. The Colombian army was alerted, and all parties proceeded to the rendezvous in the remote town of Maicao...
...Japanese or European firm whose attitude toward apartheid is apt to be worse, not better. The money thus realized must be invested for several years in South African government securities paying an interest rate about half that of the market. In other words, one must pay a ransom of some 40% of the sale price to the government that is the very cause...