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...animals stowed on board. At Moorea in the Pacific, Cook became furious after two goats were stolen, rampaging through a village and burning down 200 huts. Cook’s explosive nature led to a fatal showdown with the Hawaiian people, and Cook was hacked apart for trying to kidnap the king. The crew later recovered “a horrifying package of burnt bones, thighs, calves, skull with one ear attached, arms and hands,” Zug notes...
...depression is the constant enemy of any defector, and Soviets seem especially prone to what intelligence experts call "the postpartum blues." Yurchenko's case reminded many diplomats of Soviet Journalist Oleg Bitov, who returned to Moscow last year after defecting to Great Britain in 1983. Though Bitov offered a kidnap tale similar to Yurchenko's, British officials are convinced that both men simply had a change of heart. "A feeling arises that . . . 'Mother Russia beckons,' that the West, nice as it has been, is not 'me,' " explains a British intelligence officer...
...resident of Lincoln Way stated that between 7 p.m., Feb. 28 and 3:45 p.m. she and her boyfriend had a series of arguments. He made threats to harm her, to kidnap their daughter, and to wait for her outside her work place. The suspect has also harassed her and her family and friends with phone calls. He also stole her cell phone. An emergency restraining order was sought and issued...
...instead taken to camps in Mexico where they are “broken in.” In Mexico, organized associations of pimps dispatch men to date and seduce local girls. One of these men will offer promises of marriage or an American visa, but will actually kidnap the girl, drug and beat her, and keep her in captivity at a ‘training’ camp...
...Panamao. The rebels say that the ambush was provoked by a military offensive the day before in which a local ustadz, or religious mentor, his wife and two children died. (The military is silent on that story.) The rebels include members of Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaeda linked kidnap-for-ransom group, and renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim group that once fought for a separate state. The military estimates the rebels' numbers at 800. By the end of the week, the armed forces had sent seven battalions?roughly 3,000 soldiers?to the island...