Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old Zanzibar Asian girls to marry black Revolutionary Council members, including himself. In Equatorial (formerly Spanish) Guinea, following a business dispute with a West German pump manufacturer, President Francisco Macias Nguema seized the industrialist's wife last month and released her only two weeks ago for a ransom...
Serious Alternatives The black comedy no longer seemed quite so funny, though CBS's Eric Sevareid wryly suggested that, in the manner of O. Henry's famed story The Ransom of Red Chief, Kissinger would argue any antiwar kidnapers to a standstill and they would eventually pay Nixon to take him back. Kissinger was equal to the occasion, and reported that his overworked staff "has written a letter to the President stating that under no conditions am I to be ransomed." He had heard, he quipped, that "it was three sex-starved nuns" who were after him. Kissinger also complained...
...leading a revolt against the Spaniards. For more than five months, the Tupamaros have been holding two other diplomatic hostages: U.S. Agronomist Claude Fly and Brazilian Consul Aloysio Mares Dias Gomide. Last year they murdered Daniel Mitrione, a U.S. AID official, after Uruguayan President Jorge Pacheco Areco refused to ransom him for 160 prisoners, including many Tupamaros...
...week's end, the Tupamaros, who have demanded $1,000,000 from Senhora Gomide for her husband's release, had not announced their ransom terms for Jackson. Whatever they ask might prove academic in any case. The British have considerable influence in Montevideo because they have long been the largest customer for Uruguayan meat, even though British imports dropped recently following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. But President Pacheco declared last August that he would not negotiate with terrorists under any circumstances, and he is expected to stick to his position...
...Brazil, meanwhile, another diplomatic kidnaping case appeared to be on the verge of settlement. After a month of negotiating with Brazilian guerrillas, the government appears to be ready to pay the requested ransom for the release of Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Enrico Bucher. The price: 70 prisoners, safely delivered to either Chile, Cuba or Algeria...