Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks, and a thorough smash, this album is a collection of loose-limbed rockers and high-reaching ballads. Every cut has its eye fixed on the top of the charts with such calculation and skill that listening to the whole record straight through is like being held for ransom at WKRP. Seger is a topflight regional rocker out of Detroit, but this time around he is sticking to formula so rigidly that he has started to rewrite himself...
...hijackings and political assassinations are all too true to be good; but they make splendid fiction. Indeed, with a big assist from the headlines, the terrorist saga has become one of thriller literature's most prolific genres. This spring has exploded with more than a dozen heist-and-ransom adventures whose plots range from setting the North Sea oilfields afire to capturing U.S. nuclear plants. In one, a team of thugs heists Manhattan, no less; in another, Muslim-backed bullyboys hold Queen Elizabeth II hostage. The authors tend to go in for archetype casting: scheming Arabs, for example...
...same problem undoubtedly troubles Lewis Orde and Bill Michaels, co-authors of The Night They Stole Manhattan (Putnam; 334 pages; $11.95). After all, as they note, this is "the most audacious hijacking of all time." (British readers might disagree.) It also involves "the biggest ransom in history": a cool billion plus a jumbo jet for the surviving perpetrators. In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds. A few well-planted bombs all too easily close train and subway access; destruction of six major bridges and four tunnels completes the island's separation from...
...four earlier negotiating sessions between two foreign ministry delegates and the woman guerrilla-always accompanied by Mexican Ambassador Ricardo Galan, representing the hostages-both sides had apparently made some concessions. The terrorists, under the orders of a mysterious masked chieftain called Comandante Uno, reportedly scaled down their original ransom demand from $50 million to $10 million; they also stopped insisting on worldwide dissemination of their revolutionary manifesto. For its part, the government promised a kind of prearranged amnesty for the entrenched terrorists by offering them safe passage out of the country and a plane to fly them to countries...
...HAGUE, Sept 13, 1974 Three Japanese Red Army terrorists force release of a fourth colleague, held in a French prison, by seizing French embassy and eleven hostages. The four terrorists demand-and get-a ransom of $1 million, fly to Damascus on a French plane and surrender to P.L.O...