Word: abduction
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Which is why, says Aguilar, Raul Salinas approached the group's leaders to abduct Ruiz Massieu. Originally the plan was just for a kidnapping, to silence him--and perhaps to punish him for an acrimonious divorce from Salinas' sister. But in the late summer of 1994, Salinas' men changed the plan: "They said [Ruiz Massieu] was too much of a threat to the Salinases, and that we'd have to kill him. I've never been so shook up as when I heard that...
Since the American President conspired with his Russian counterpart to abduct the general, there is a certain loopy plausibility to the premise. And since their leader, Korshunov, is played by Gary Oldman, an actor who can go from purring self-pity to coldly homicidal rage in about 10 frames of film, these terrorists are truly terrifying--especially when the psychopath in chief has a gun to the head of the First Lady (Wendy Crewson) or the First Child (Liesel Matthews...
Meanwhile, the duke's courtiers conspire to abduct Gilda and carry her off to the palace. When Rigoletto finally finds his daughter again, seduced and deflowered, he swears revenge and hires a paid assassin, Sparafucile, to murder the duke at a wayside inn. As for the denouement, suffice it to say that Gilda, despite ample evidence of her lover's inconstancy, dies to save his life...but not before singing a last extended duet with her broken-hearted father...
While Mack and Hopkins agree aliens abduct people--an idea which has caused great controversy--they disagree over the aliens' motives...
...lookout for a round-faced man with bushy hair, a thin mustache and no familiarity with ice skating. He may have tried to abduct TONYA HARDING, apparently unaware of who she is or that one of her husbands did time for plotting to bash someone in the knee. Police are investigating Harding's claim that a man forced her into her truck outside her home, ordered her to drive and slapped her several times. Harding escaped by steering the car into a tree, grabbing the keys and running. "Her injuries are minor," says her publicist, David Hans Schmidt, who used...