Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defendants a permanent niche in law-school textbooks, plus a place on death row. The reason is an apparently unique question of double jeopardy. It arises from the fact that while Becky Heath's body was found in La Grange, Ga., her murderers picked her up, or perhaps kidnaped her, from her home 45 miles away in Phenix City, Ala. And after some of the defendants had confessed or pleaded guilty in La Grange, the prosecutor across the border in Phenix City announced that he also planned to try them, on conspiracy and kidnap-murder charges, and would make...
...tear ends and the mend begins. The duke, for instance, did visit Germany in 1937, where he took tea with Field Marshal Goring and was photographed with Hitler. And he did lounge in neutral Portugal, as if to wait out the hostilities, until Winston Churchill learned of a Nazi kidnap plot and ordered British troops to provide an escort to the Bahamas. But the additional malice is pure Findley: British commandos raid the duke's quarters, only to find the royal presence crashing through a mirror, trying to hide inside his own image...
...only rejoinder which the over-rated and over-paid (1)wits could think of was to renege on the pregame agreement to pay for lunch. A pregame Lampoon plot to kidnap Crimson president paul M. Barrett failed miserably when Barrett left three dozen 300 th attackers in a lifeless heap. Lampoon president Lisa Hemson refused to comment on it situation, managing only a weak. "If we can't win, we'll just take our flag and go home...
From the sputtering traffic in radio messages, the hunters soon realize that what started as a campaign for justice may end as a fight between rival intelligence agencies trying to kidnap or silence the Führer and rival media packagers trying to sell him. To forestall that, they head deeper into the jungle and put him on trial themselves. Hence Hitler's climactic defense speech, which turns into one long, hideous embrace...
...Watergate," according to Garment, was about to blow up; its ramifications went far beyond the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex. There had been other break-ins sanctioned from the White House. A plan had existed to kidnap presumptive leaders of potential demonstrations against the Republican National Convention. Prostitutes were to be used to compromise and to blackmail delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Garment said the "sordid mess" had many dimensions. It could not have developed without the cooperation of the highest levels of the Administration. Garment thought that Special Counsel...