Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zimbabwe ministers angrily accused the general of doing "incalculable harm" to Mugabe's efforts to achieve postwar reconciliation at home and win aid and confidence abroad. In a blistering parliamentary attack on Walls, Minister of Information Nathan Shamuyarira declared that the government "will not be held ransom by racial misfits" and invited "all those Europeans [whites] who do not accept the new order to pack their bags." Citing a story about the alleged coup plan in the London Daily Express, Shamuyarira said that the government was considering "legal or administrative action" against Walls. Added Mugabe...
...hirelings outside our borders." Their advice to the Iranian hostages in London: "Do not fear martyrdom. Resist, and victory will be yours." Similarly, Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh observed that "anyone who has died for Islam goes directly to heaven." After talking to the London gunmen by telephone, Ghotbzadeh rejected their ransom demand and threatened to have one of their imprisoned comrades executed for every member of the London embassy staff who was harmed...
October 1977: Four terrorists hijacked a Lufthansa jet with 86 aboard after takeoff from Majorca, demanding ransom money and the release of leaders of the Baader-Meinhof gang from West German prisons. The terrorists made several refueling stops and finally landed at Mogadishu, Somalia, where West German commandos stormed the plane and rescued the hostages; three terrorists were killed...
...were to be liberated upon arrival in Cuba, where President Fidel Castro had offered sanctuary to the terrorists. Thus ended the 61-day siege at the Dominican Republic embassy in Colombia's capital, raided during a diplomatic reception on February 27 by terrorists who demanded a $50 million ransom and freedom for hundreds of jailed comrades...
...already been freed; one other had escaped. Throughout the numerous bargaining sessions, the government had steadfastly refused to consider the guerrillas' demand for the release of their imprisoned comrades. In the end, the terrorists settled for safe-conduct passes out of the country and an estimated $2.5 million ransom, apparently paid by private sources and foreign governments whose representatives were among the hostages. In addition, the Colombian government agreed to transfer prosecution of all political prisoners from military to civilian courts...