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About the only growth industry in Italy these days is kidnaping. So far this year there have been 42 cases (compared with only nine in 1970). Since ransom demands often run more than $1 million, rich Italians are now looking nervously over their shoulders for the dread rapitori. Like any other booming industry, however, kidnaping has brought in a number of inefficient entrepreneurs, who, if they continue at their present stumbling pace, are likely to queer the whole business...
Even if the caper had succeeded, it might have been for naught. The gang apparently assumed that the prince could pay a princely ransom. Though D'Angerio is a descendant of the Anjou kings of France, he is not rich and is only the manager of a small textile factory. "Quite honestly," he sighed, "I don't know how my family could have scraped together a decent ransom...
Specifically, the film is concerned with an anarchist group that kidnaps (from a whorehouse) the American Ambassador to France, holds him for ransom on an isolated farm while threatening to kill him if their demands are not met by the government. Eventually he and his captors all die in a police action that looks like a rescue operation but is planned from the start by its leader (Michel Aumont) as a massacre. Throughout, Chabrol scores the kind of points one expects from him. Most of the Nada gang are working out their personal problems through political activity. The same...
...Heesch, 34, of Beaver Creek, Ore., admitted responsibility for a bizarre extortion scheme involving the bombing of eleven electrical transmission towers of the Bonneville Power Administration, a threat to set a fire in the Bull Run watershed, which provides water for the city of Portland, and a $1 million ransom demand...
...known to Western diplomats in Beirut as "P-Flippers," has carried out some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks, including the simultaneous skyjacking of U.S., British and Swiss airliners to the Jordanian desert in 1970. It also skyjacked a Lufthansa 747 two years later and collected a $5 million ransom for plane and passengers. The P.F.L.P. is allied with the far-left "Japanese Red Army," three of whose members shot up Israel's Lod Airport in 1972 and slaughtered 27 people...