Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nonnegotiation policy on three counts. He had 1) given temporary diplomatic protection to two rebel representatives who arrived unexpectedly at the embassy; 2) allowed an embassy communications officer from Nairobi to accompany the students' parents to a rendezvous with the terrorists near Kigoma, Tanzania; and 3) allowed the ransom money to be shipped from London to Dar es Salaam by diplomatic pouch. Kissinger wanted to fire Carter outright, but aides persuaded him to soften the punishment. Summoned to Washington for "consultations," Carter was told to forget about going to Copenhagen...
...ransom was recovered from under a bed in an apartment rented by a friend of Byrne's. The tenant was in a hospital at the time and was not a suspect. Also found with the cash was another...
Unknown to the kidnaper, FBI agents had observed the ransom exchange and got the license number (969KXJ) of the kidnaper's car. Incredibly, neither the car nor the plates seemed to have been stolen. The number checked out to a Mel Lynch, 37, a New York City fireman, who lived in a six-story apartment house in a middle-class area of Brooklyn. Agents quickly staked out the house...
...woman kidnaped Barbara Mackle, the 20-year-old daughter of a Florida land developer, and buried her in a box with a supply of air and water for 83 hours. She was found unharmed, and her kidnaper was arrested the day after he had collected $500,000 in ransom. In 1973 the kidnapers of 16-year-old Eugene Paul Getty II, grandson of the oil billionaire, kept the boy in captivity through nearly six months of negotiations; the case proved to have any number of sensational aspects. After cutting off the boy's right ear and mailing...
...each day passed, it grew ever more unlikely that Hoffa had been kidnaped for ransom or had vanished of his own accord. It seemed increasingly certain he was dead and would never be found-like countless Mafia victims before him. Hoffa had been warned by St. Louis Teamsters that he might be murdered if he continued to try to regain control of the union. But cocky as always, he had not taken any precautions to guard himself. In one last chat with a friend, he declared: "Everybody knows where I am. I never had bodyguards and I always drive myself...