Word: ransoms
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...with electric shocks. Two days later, Pak's abductors ordered him to fly to Washington and transfer $500,000 in church funds to a numbered bank account in Switzerland. They threatened to harm Pak's wife and six children, who live in suburban Virginia, if the ransom was not paid...
...notified by church officials of Pak's disappearance, contacted him in Washington. Pak revealed the kidnap plot to the FBI and canceled the wire transfer of the ransom money. Through his identification of the kidnapers, two of whom he knew personally, investigators tracked down and arrested six men. They included Unification Church Associates Sang Whi Nam and Yung Soo Suh. An attorney for Nam said that the abduction arose out of an internal church dispute and was an attempt to change Unification Church policy. Joy Garrett, a church spokeswoman, said that Nam's claim was "absolutely false," adding...
...Italy because its central database files were blown up anti government bombers in the late 1970s. A company near San Francisco lost $100,000 last year when a vengeful employee stole its data tiles, retreated into the Northern California hills and threatened to destroy the data unless the ransom was paid. For the enormous high tech community in Boston both internal and external security looms as one of their most several problems...
...will ever be tempted to employ terms like that to describe The Bostonians, for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay is less a response to its source than a careful college outline of it. There is a certain undiminishable power in the struggle between Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), all snaky masculine guile, and Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), representing feminism at its most sternly ideological, for the innocent soul of Verena Tarrant. But Ivory's camera behaves like a tourist trapped meekly behind a velvet rope at a historical reconstruction, and most of his actors seem afraid they might damage...
...character that is infinitely sweet without being insipid: an innocent but not an imbecile or a wimp. The ambiguity of Verena's character comes across-on one hand, she is being hailed as the champion of women's rights: on the other, she has little identity of her own. Ransom's old and Olive's new are alternately borrowed and discarded in an effort to keep all parties of the love triangle reasonably happy. At the same time, Verena is convincing and interesting enough--"an original," as an admiring New York matron points out--to keep all the vacillation quite...