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...stickup is not what it used to be. And why chance it when a little dognaping can turn a bigger profit? According to Duncan Wright, director of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, there has been a marked increase in "demands for ransom to return animals." The ransom bite usually ranges between $150 and $200. Sometimes those seeking ransom do not even have the animal; they pose as dog finders when they see the phone number of a grief-stricken owner in "Dog Lost" advertisements...
...Chicago couple suffered the double indignity of being assaulted and robbed when they tried-in vain-to buy back their dog. To discourage ransom demands, animal-welfare officials in San Francisco have stopped giving the phone numbers of pet losers to callers who report finding animals. Instead, the ASPCA relays the information. Tattooed registration numbers on a dog's skin discourage thieves, but the marking should never be put on the dog's ear. Reason: dognapers might cut off the ear and mail it to the owner as proof they have poor Fido...
...doctor's wife was killed. West German officials quickly arranged a payoff for the doctor's return. Later, the coopérant escaped to Libya, leaving Mme. Claustre alone in the hands of a Maoist rebel leader named Hissène Habré, who demanded a ransom that included 80 tons of arms and ammunition in return for the release of his hostage. But France could not supply the arms without affronting the government of Chad President N'Garta Tombalbaye and losing influence throughout Africa...
...very rebels who captured Claustre. Habre ordered his execution-reportedly by slitting open his abdomen and tying him to the hind legs of a camel. Four later envoys escaped alive, but were no more successful than Galopin in liberating Claustre. At one point, France delivered an $880,000 ransom in cash and promised another $ 1.4 million in the form of nonmartial military goods, including a field hospital. Habre refused the bait, and the result was the astonishing spectacle of a nuclear power virtually helpless before a guerrilla leader with a ragtag army of fewer than...
...Enforcer. Dirty Harry and Magnum Force were unadulterated vehicles for themes like "might makes right" and "violence is a great deterrent to crime." The Enforcer, however, can be interpreted as leading to a different conclusion. The revolutionaries, after kidnapping the Mayor of San Francisco and demanding ransom, have holed up in--you guessed it--Alcatraz. Harry and partner arrive, and after an extended gunfight and hide-and-seek game the only survivors are Harry and the Mayor, a pompous, self-serving fool. As he dusts himself off after his brushes with death, the Mayor promises Harry that "There will...