Word: ransoms
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...Nationals pitcher Liván Hernández last week refused to pay ransom for the glove he chucked into the stands after being pulled from a game. What was the mitt holder demanding...
...first-division soccer team Cruz Azul; by armed kidnappers; in Mexico City. Romano, an Argentine who led the club to a second-place finish this year, was ambushed while driving away from a practice session, according to eyewitnesses. A note found near a church demanded a $500,000 ransom. Sixty-seven people have been kidnapped in Mexico City so far this year...
...Civil War Ransom. When Confederate soldiers surrounded Frederick, Md., in 1864 and threatened to destroy federal stores unless a ransom was paid, townspeople rustled up $200,000. The victorious Union never repaid the money, and outgoing Maryland Senator Charles Mathias has been trying to collect it for a dozen years. Last week he finally succeeded...
...Iraq for more than five months; in Baghdad. Aubenas, who was kidnapped with her Iraqi interpreter Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi by Sunni insurgents, received euphoric media coverage and public attention upon her return to France. The French government had negotiated for her release for months, and said no ransom was paid. "My kidnappers told me that I was as famous as Lady Di in France," said Aubenas after arriving in Paris...
...schoolboy; after being shot during an eight-hour siege of an international school; in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Chea Sokhom, 23, a former driver for a South Korean restaurant owner, and three accomplices entered the school and took about 30 schoolchildren and teachers hostage. Cambodian police delivered $30,000 in ransom and a van per the four's demands, but they were overpowered by police and arrested before they could drive away. Police reported that Sokhom wanted to take revenge on his former employer, who he said had slapped him, by kidnapping the man's two children. Sokhom told police...