Word: ransoms
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...country's rail system. The government confirmed that its security forces have for the past three months played a cat-and-mouse game with a group calling itself AZF that has threatened to bomb the railroads - and two other unidentified targets - unless it is paid a hefty ransom. Officials were instructed to communicate with the group via personal ads in a newspaper, using the code name "Big Wolf" for AZF and "Suzy" for the Interior Ministry. A day after one such ad was posted, they received the GPS coordinates of a sophisticated bomb planted along a line in central France...
Counterfeiting is our worst enemy. It threatens an image for any work of creation. It is the ransom of success. --YVES CARCELLE, chairman, Louis Vuitton, on the growing number of imitations on the market...
...plans by the mine's U.S. co-owner, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. (2002 revenues: $2.75 billion). Yanacocha mined 2.3 million oz. of gold last year and earned $700 million, but 75% of the town's population lives in poverty. Cajamarca resident Silvio Suarez likes to show tourists the "ransom room," a stone building that the last Inca Emperor, Atahualpa, filled with gold for the Spaniards in 1532. Then they killed him. Foreign-owned mines, says Suarez, "are taking our gold the way the Spaniards took the Inca gold to their king...
...better time. After last summer’s New York blackout, being trapped in a subway seemed scarier than ever. Director Joseph Sargent’s taut suspense yarn plays on these fears—four criminals take over a subway train and demand one million dollars in ransom, as detective Walter Matthau rushes to save the day. Unfortunately, he’s only got an hour—after that, the passengers start dying. The color-coded hijackers—Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, etc.—were a direct influence on Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir...
...Blame Us COLOMBIA Leftist rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) denied it was holding eight tourists kidnapped two weeks ago while trekking in a northern mountain range, as thousands of soldiers searched the notoriously dangerous region. FARC regularly kidnaps foreigners for ransom; it is currently holding more than 70 people, including three Americans. Two other rebel groups operate in the area...