Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thanking Bonn for its desperate efforts, other Israelis were vehemently agreeing with the Tel Aviv daily Hatzofeh that the whole tragedy might have been avoided had West Germany not "surrendered" in the past to the demands of terrorists; last February, Bonn delivered a cool $5,000,000 cash ransom to Palestinian hijackers who had taken over an Athens-bound Lufthansa 747 with 186 passengers and crew members and diverted the plane to Aden. For their part, German officials complained that Israel's refusal to release any Arab prisoners had made the botched rescue a vain effort from the start...
Though it operated in the shadow of the more prestigious New York City papers, the News sometimes rivaled them in its heyday. In 1932 its city editor, Henry Coit, was the first to report that Charles Lindbergh had paid a ransom to the kidnaper of his son. News Correspondent Cecil I. Dorrian was the first woman to file dispatches from the front lines in World War I. Correspondent Arthur J. Sinnott had such a pipeline to President Woodrow Wilson that the capital press corps formally protested the long string of major exclusives. The paper's coverage of state...
...regime kept its complaints more or less to itself, but Cleaver did not. When the Algerian government showed no intention of letting the Panthers get their hands on the Delta ransom, Cleaver dashed off an open letter to President Boumedienne. "We must have the money," he told his host, "no ifs and buts about the point." The "expropriation" of the aircraft was an "internal problem between the American people themselves, to be settled by them and not others who are incidentally involved...
Sibley's demands were as unusual as his methods. Besides $2,000,000 in $20 and $50 bills and $8,000 worth of gold bars-the highest ransom ever demanded in the U.S.-he insisted upon items ranging from three Thompson submachine guns and 300 feet of nylon rope to ammonia inhalers, smelling salts, pep pills and sleeping pills. Once the passengers were off the plane, it flew to Vancouver, B.C. Told that that much U.S. currency was not on hand in Vancouver, Sibley ordered the plane to Seattle. En route, he handed the crew a four-page statement...
...George McGovern must be stupidly naive if he honestly expects Hanoi to give us back our P.O.W.s. No amount of begging will do it. Two reasons: first. North Viet Nam's wish to humiliate the U.S.; and second, its desire to obtain reparations, which I'd call ransom. The price will come high...