Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motion a series of events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500,000 in gold bullion, plus transport and safe conduct for 23 jailed F.L.Q. thugs to Cuba or Algeria. After the ransom was denied, another group of kidnapers then abducted Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, prompting Trudeau to crack down really hard. Under a little-used World War I security measure, the Prime Minister invoked emergency police powers -something that had never been done in peacetime in tolerant, democratic Canada-and sent...
...ransom was to be "an end to United States bombing operations in Southeast Asia and the release of all political prisoners." The organization, "East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives," also intended to blow up underground electrical lines and steam pipes in Washington, Hoover said, "in order to disrupt Federal Government operations...
...Ransom. Less than two months ago, in a dramatic changing of the guard (TIME, Sept. 21), Cushing turned over his diocese to the Most Reverend Humberto S. Medeiros, an activist bishop who had previously headed the diocese of Brownsville, Texas. "The will to live will be gone," predicted an old friend. Said another: "He's not able to do anything else except be Archbishop of Boston...
...James the Apostle for work in Latin America. His ability to raise money for the church at home and abroad was prodigious-a total of more than $100 million in 26 years. Just before Christmas in 1961, he raised $2,900,000 in cash in one day to ransom the Cuban prisoners captured in "dear Jack's" Bay of Pigs invasion...
...Laporte. As ransom, the terrorists demanded the release of 23 "political" prisoners, safe conduct for them to Cuba or Algeria, and $500,000 in gold bullion...