Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police said yesterday that, over the past four years, Womack stole from the book collection at Northeastern, tried to extort money from that university and, in one case, threatened to blow up a bank if ransom money was not left for him at Widener Library...
...G.O.P., but also must contend with centrist hard bargainers like Senate Republican leader Bob Dole. When the Senate Republican leader wanted to make Administration officials jump, he merely had to fire off a few faxes. Sent while the President was vacationing in Hawaii, the faxes amounted to ransom notes, lists of demands to be met in return for Dole's support when a lame-duck Congress votes this week on the world-trade pact known as GATT. On the receiving end were White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. Within...
...threatening to give the Administration's foreign policy a rough ride for the next two years unless the President deferred the vote on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the new session of Congress. A Senate aide likened the tactic to "kidnapping a child and sending a ransom note even though you plan to kill the kid anyway...
...that Clinton is not up to the job of Commander in Chief -- a remark that was widely regarded, even by some of Helms' ideological brethren, as very nearly unpatriotic. Earlier in the week the crusty Senator, who will chair the Foreign Relations Committee, dispatched what read like a ransom note to the Administration, threatening tough handling of Clinton foreign policy if next week's vote on the huge free- trade treaty was not delayed until next year. That sort of hubris could impede the great Republican revolution, turning it into little more than an opportunity for new bottoms to press...
...drama began on an unseasonably balmy Sunday afternoon as Nahshon Waxman, 19, a corporal in the Israeli army, was heading for his girlfriend's house. Hitchhiking in central Israel, he was picked up by activists from the militant Islamic movement Hamas. Two days later they named their ransom: the release from Israeli jails of their spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and 200 other Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners. Waxman was hardly the first Israeli to be taken hostage. Fundamentalists from the West Bank and Gaza Strip have seized nine others during the past five years, killing all of them. But there...