Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ransom Demands. The S.L.A. communique early in the week demanded that Hearst provide $70 worth of "top" meats, vegetables and dairy products to everyone in California holding one of several certificates attesting to neediness: welfare cards, Social Security pension cards, food stamp cards, disabled-veteran cards, Medi-Cal (the state's version of Medicare) cards, parole or probation papers and jailor bail-release slips. The food was to be distributed through supermarkets for three days during each of the next four weeks, and the S.L.A. suggested that the program be supervised by several groups, including the Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez...
...plan was modeled on ransom demands made in recent years by the Argentine E.R.P. (Revolutionary Army of the People), which has demanded food, clothing and medical equipment for poor areas from corporations in return for freeing kidnaped executives. The S.L.A., however, had wildly raised the stakes. The largest amount known to have been demanded by the E.R.P. was $10 million from Exxon last year. California officials estimated that the bill for the state's 1.9 million welfare recipients alone would come to $133 million and that other people deemed eligible by the S.L.A. might make it as high...
...revolt aboard the slave ship transporting him to the U.S. The New York Post noted last week that the plot of Black Abductor, a novel of politics and pornography published in 1972, closely resembles the Hearst kidnaping. In the book, an heiress-coed named Patricia is held for ransom by a racially mixed group of radicals in America's "first political kidnaping...
...Getty's mother, former Actress Gail Harris. Mrs. Harris was at first wary of cooperating with the police out of fear of jeopardizing her son's life. When the police secretly tapped her telephone, they heard a man with a Calabrian-Sicilian accent calling to negotiate the ransom for her son. The gang demanded $ 17 million but finally settled for $2,890,000. To deliver the money, Billionaire Getty, who lives in England, sent to Rome a tall, craggy-faced American, identified by Italian newspapers as Fletcher Chase, 54, of San Diego. Chase packed 52,000 banknotes...
Getty's was the most spectacular kidnaping involving the rich or their offspring in Italy last year-but hardly the only one. In 1973 there were 16 major kidnapings for ransom in Italy. Late last week Student Pier Giorgio Bolis, 17, of Bergamo was abducted; his wealthy industrialist father has duly received a telephone call to negotiate a ransom...