Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police, killing one officer and wounding another in the thigh. The wounded cop managed to shoot two of the attackers, who were later identified as Michael Knoll, 27, and Angelika Speitel, 26, both members of the terrorist Red Army Faction. Speitel is wanted in connection with the kidnap and murder of Industrialist Harms-Martin Schleyer and the deaths of Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and Banker Jürgen Ponto...
...feud continued both in prison and after Hoffa and Provenzano were released. According to Moldea, Hoffa told a fellow Teamster that Provenzano had "threatened to pull my guts out or kidnap my children if I continue to attempt to return to the presidency of the Teamsters." But, at the urging of Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone, a Detroit gang lieutenant and longtime friend, Hoffa finally agreed to meet with Tony Pro on July 30, 1975, to try to resolve their differences...
...private armies that were common in 19th century Italy), but guards legally can be hired to protect the cash an individual carries in his wallet, and many take advantage of this loophole. The number of security firms has soared, as have sales of watchdogs, bulletproof vests, armored sedans and kidnap insurance policies-forbidden in Italy but available elsewhere...
...custody made no pretense of innocence. In a final statement, read by four of the defendants, they told the court that all those on trial were militant Red Brigades members who assumed "collectively and in entirety responsibility for every one of its past, present and future actions." The kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro this spring by other Red Brigades terrorists, declared one of the defendants, was "a leap forward of high quality." Even as the jury was deliberating, two gunmen followed former Antiterrorist Squad Chief Antonio Esposito, 36, onto a Genoa bus and shot and killed him before...
...past eight years. Amnesty International has launched a campaign against alleged torture used by government officials on Argentine political prisoners, and is backed by, among others, the West German Protestant Church. Anti-Argentina protesters in France bombed a travel agency offering World Cup tours. An assailant unsuccessfully attempted to kidnap Michel Hidalgo, the French team's manager. Nor was such violence by European protesters the only source of worry. West German officials, concerned about possible left-wing terrorism during the series, and mindful of the 1972 Olympic massacre at Munich, insisted on sending with their squad twelve members...