Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BLACK WINDMILL. At the beginning of this odd, superior little thriller, a British intelligence agent (played with impeccable sangfroid by Michael Caine) discovers that his son has been kidnaped. The ransom demand is well over a million dollars worth of uncut diamonds-exactly the amount that Caine's intelligence unit was about to use to counter an arms-smuggling plot. The fact that the kidnapers know precisely what sum to ask for means there has been a leak at the highest level of security...
...mission. DeFreeze took the name Cinque, the name of an African slave who led a slave ship revolt in 1839. The SLA's food plan resembles the tactics of the Argentine Revolutionary Army of the People, a terrorist group which has successfully demanded food, clothing, and medical equipment in ransom for kidnaped corporation executives. The set of SLA demands to Randolph Hearst involved no payments to the SLA. The Army's platform declares the SLA's opposition to "all forms of racism, sexism, age-ism, captalism, fascism, individualism, possessiveness, and competitiveness...
...Ireland and was being sought by police for I.R.A.-connected gunrunning and the attempted helicopter bombing of an Ulster police station. Rose was also suspected of being among a group who in March hijacked a police car in the Irish Republic. Police believe that she also helped write the ransom note demanding $1,250,000 plus the transfer of four jailed Irish terrorists from Britain to Ulster in return for the masterpieces stolen from Sir Alfred...
...improvement, or at least stability, which depends in no small measure on foreign investment. Many of the kidnap victims have been foreign businessmen, such as U.S. Exxon Executive Victor Samuelson, 36, who was released last week after 144 days of captivity and after his firm paid $14.2 million hi ransom. Last November a U.S. Ford executive was killed in an apparent kidnap attempt. With such rampant violence seemingly beyond Perón's control, U.S. companies are pulling their personnel out of Argentina, and may well limit their investments. For Perón, that is a serious threat...
...players' impatience grew. Robbie contends that it was unfair to expect him to bargain at long distance. He had assumed all along that the players were going to Canada merely to hear an offer. "I didn't expect them to be spirited off and held for ransom," he says with some heat. When Robbie hung up for the last time. Keating and the three players met alone. "Do we or don't we?" asked Csonka. Several minutes later they signed