Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second anonymous call, a day later, was even more ominous. It described Dozier as "the hangman of NATO" and said he was being held in a "people's prison, where he will be judged by the proletariat." No mention was made of ransom or terms for his release...
...Instead of being charged with hijacking, which could have brought a mandatory sentence of five to 30 years, the five were accused of kidnaping, a lesser crime with no mandatory penalty. Moreover, the charge may not stick, since the mercenaries apparently had no intention of holding the passengers for ransom...
...town (Carpentersville, Ill., pop. 23,000), trying to finance his recreational use. The business seemed so easy that it just grew. Throughout their perilous escapades, Stein berg and friends remained calm, peaceful, fun-loving, devil-may-care. They never used force. If an aide was kidnaped, they paid the ransom. If a distributor burned them on a payoff, they simply did not deal with him again. Their mothers, aunts, wives, girlfriends were recruited to rent safe houses in Miami suburbs for storing drugs or to ride along as evidence of propriety when they were transporting a shipment. Says Steinberg...
...professor of English, he had published three volumes of poetry by the time his first novel came out last year. Called Free Fall, it is based on the unsolved 1971 skyjacking of a commercial airliner by "D.B. Cooper," who parachuted into oblivion-and popular legend-with $200,000 in ransom money. Reed offers an exciting and altogether plausible account of what might have happened after the skyjacker did his Geronimo. A movie made from the novel, entitled The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, opens next month...
...treason" charges-unjustly, according to the Bonn government. The plan also calls for East German authorities to issue exit visas to some 3,000 of their citizens who want to join relatives in the West. But for this the West Germans reportedly have to pay extra: a total ransom of about $45 million...