Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ineffective rule. Last May, Buhari ordered the brutal expulsion of 700,000 illegal immigrants from neighboring African states, jailed hundreds of political opponents and muzzled a once aggressive press. He also soured Nigeria's relations with its former colonial master, Britain, with a clumsy attempt in July 1984 to kidnap President Shagari's brother-in-law, former Transport Minister Umaru Dikko, and ship him from London to Lagos in a wooden crate...
...organization, and had been moved from Beirut to Baalbek in the Syrian-dominated Bekaa Valley. This region has been a base for Islamic extremist groups over the past three years, and is thought to be the area where some of the seven American, one British and four French kidnap victims are currently being held...
...that 24 people were arrested, including, it is believed, members of various Mexican police units. The most important catch, however, was Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, 60, known as El Padrino, or the Godfather. He is reputed to be Mexico's leading drug trafficker and a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of U.S. Narcotics Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar...
...history linked to numbers: the Catonsville Nine, who that destroyed draft records in 1968; the Harrisburg Seven, charged in 1971 with plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger; the Plowshares Eight, who attacked nuclear missiles with hammers in 1980. Berrigan, 61, is still an outrider of the Roman Catholic peace movement, which has shifted its protests from Viet Nam to the arms race. Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, was excommunicated after marrying a Sacred Heart nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; she is serving a three-year prison sentence for vandalizing a B-52 bomber. The couple try to alternate prison terms...
...captive of a previously unheard-of organization. Last week a farmer in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley stumbled upon the priest's decomposing body at the bottom of a ravine. An autopsy showed that he had been strangled shortly after his capture, and police theorized that the kidnaping was the work of robbers rather than of any known Islamic political group. Father Kluiters was the first kidnap victim to be found dead out of the 17 Westerners, including seven Americans, abducted in Lebanon during the past 14 months. In recent days four non-American captives have been released...