Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Have a tendency to kidnap young girls? This is not the sort of thing one says in the middle of one's boss's campaign to give $14 million to the contras, only a week after said boss has called the contras "our brothers" and "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." But it's not the impolitic thing to say if one is using the time-honored leak method to away the course of the boss's policy...
...What we see is that the Sandinista legitimate are usually legitimate battle victims," the official told Brinkley. The contras have a tendency to kidnap young girls...
That acknowledgment came as authorities arraigned six Jalisco state policemen last week on charges related to the kidnap and murder of U.S. Narcotics Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in Guadalajara last month. The arrested officers have confessed that drug traffickers offered them from $200 to $6,250 a month for official protection--a tempting bribe for men who make only $200 to $400 a month and often must buy their own pistols...
...lack of vigor and . . . cooperation" in the hunt for Camarena. The U.S. went so far as to inspect every automobile at many of the 26 official crossing points along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border, aggravating already tense diplomatic relations. Last week, after drug traffickers threatened to kidnap and kill a Customs officer, U.S. border agents packed .357 Magnum revolvers and carried shotguns on duty. Nine remote stations were closed, hurting business in border towns from California to Texas. At week's end only two had been reopened...
...relief, for he could have fared much worse: the state prosecutor had requested the death penalty. Also sentenced to long terms for aiding Piotrowski in the abduction and killing of Popieluszko last October were two subordinates in the security forces, Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski. Pekala, who drove the kidnap car, received 15 years, and Chmielewski, whose stuttering, tear-filled testimony gave the trial some of its most dramatic moments, got 14 years. Adam Pietruszka, the former colonel who flatly denied Piotrowski's accusations that he had encouraged the killing, received a 25-year jail term...