Word: ransomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow fans. I come to you this morning with a heavy heart, for a grave crisis is at hand. Sometime between the hours of 10 a.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday, Captain Crunch was kidnapped from the Quincy House JCR. No trace was left, and as of now, no ransom has been demanded. We have no evidence that he is still alive...
...Ransom Notes. So far, the money has been moving on what the Pearson report calls a somewhat sloppy "trial and error" basis. The have-nots have made an art of what aid experts call the "ransom note" approach (hinting that they will warm up to Moscow, say, if the U.S. starts getting stingy). The haves play "puppetry" with the strings they attach to aid deals (the U.S., for example requires aid recipients to oppose the seating of Red China...
...Stadnik proceeded to her duplex apartment, where he confronted her son, David, 27, with a pistol. Demanding 2,000,000 francs ($360,000) to spare David's life, the nervous gunman forced the young heir to call his father, Rothschild Bank President Baron Guy de Rothschild, for the ransom. No sooner said than done. "In a situation like mine, you know, with all the contacts you have, it is not hard to find a big sum," David later explained. When Baron Guy arrived to pay off in person, Stadnik commandeered the bank's chauffeured car and made...
Died. Robert Greenlease, 87, central figure in one of recent history's most spectacular kidnapings, who in 1953 paid $600,000 ransom for the return of his young son Bobby, only to learn that he had been brutally murdered before the ransom was delivered; of pneumonia; in Mission Hills, Kans...
Colombian urban terrorists affiliated with the Army of National Liberation pocketed at least $600,000 in ransom money from kidnapings in August alone. In Bolivia, where 22 dynamite explosions have rocked La Paz and other cities since May, the government last week scored a rare triumph over the guerrillas. Police surprised Guido "Inti" Peredo, the only one of Guevara's lieutenants to survive Che's doomed campaign, in a house in La Paz. Inti died in the clash. In Guatemala City, where terrorists last year assassinated U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein and two U.S. military attach...