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...claimed a link between Caransa's kidnaping and the Red Army terrorist group that abducted and murdered West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Dutch police continued to investigate the case for the nonpolitical offense that it evidently was. "We are not butchers with political motives," Caransa quoted one captor as saying. "We are criminals and we want a lot of money." They got plenty of that -44 Ibs. of crisp new 1,000-guilder notes, worth about $400 each. What continues to puzzle police is why the kidnapers would demand payment in a denomination of bills that...
...color-at the same time trying to capture the opponent's rows. A capture is accomplished by outflanking a row, maneuvering to place white disks, for example, at both ends of a row of black disks. When this happens, the row is flipped to the color of the captor, whose next challenge is to protect his own disks from being flipped by his opponent. When the board is full, the player with the most disks in his color is the winner. Compared with chess, for example, it all sounds quite simple and takes only 15 to 30 minutes...
...gets over the shock of Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually she and Kong actually begin to build a ... well, a relationship, something that was never made explicit between Wray...
Some psychologists think that hijackers cash in on widespread hostility to authority. Once the air passenger believes he will not be killed, says Dr. Hubbard, he can view his captor as a dashing desperado lashing out against the Establishment. Also, victims sometimes see the hijacking as a free ticket to adventure and personal publicity. Says Hubbard: "Passengers know that the game, correctly played, will make them celebrities among their circle of friends. For a moment, too, they can run away from wives, mortgages, the Internal Revenue Service and the church appeal...
...Shoot him, shoot him," demanded other members of a Moslem gang when one of their number showed up with a Christian prisoner. Obviously nettled, the captor turned to his prisoner. "I'm not going to shoot you," he said angrily. "I want to show these guys that they can't order me around." With that, the Christian was set free...