Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notified by church officials of Pak's disappearance, contacted him in Washington. Pak revealed the kidnap plot to the FBI and canceled the wire transfer of the ransom money. Through his identification of the kidnapers, two of whom he knew personally, investigators tracked down and arrested six men. They included Unification Church Associates Sang Whi Nam and Yung Soo Suh. An attorney for Nam said that the abduction arose out of an internal church dispute and was an attempt to change Unification Church policy. Joy Garrett, a church spokeswoman, said that Nam's claim was "absolutely false," adding...
According to one theory, the secret-police officers schemed to kidnap Popieluszko in an effort to create a crisis and forestall a rumored plan by Jaruzelski to purge hardliners...
...Guatemalan government considers the refugee camps, which are several miles from the border, to be staging areas for the guerrillas, a charge that Mexico indignantly denies. Dozens of times over the past four years Guatemalan troops have crossed the border to kill and kidnap refugees. The most recent attack occurred last month, when some 200 Guatemalan soldiers attacked a camp at El Chupadero, four miles north of the border. According to the examining doctor, four men, a pregnant woman and a six-year-old child were tortured and killed...
...worst mass murder in New York City history, ten people, including eight children, were shot dead, execution-style, in a Brooklyn apartment last week. In New Hampshire, Christopher Wilder's cross-country odyssey of kidnap, rape and murder ended in his shooting death during a struggle with police. In Texas, Henry Lee Lucas, who boasts of killing some 360 people, was condemned to death for one of those murders. Against that shocking tableau of recent criminal violence, many Americans might find it difficult to credit some good news from Washington last week: crime, said the FBI, declined more sharply...
Company founders fortunate enough not only to reap but also to keep their winnings sometimes find the attention they receive to be unsettling. The new multimillionaires begin to worry about kidnap attempts on themselves and their families. They erect security fences around their homes, install elaborate burglar alarms and buy faster cars. Sy Merns, founder of Syms, a chain of eleven off-price clothing stores mostly in the Northeast, cashed in some $33 million worth of shares when his company went public in September, and his stock holdings are estimated at more than $110 million. Because of concerns about...