Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grenier, the Cuban-born head of FIU's sociology department. The city offers not just trade but also services that range from banking and insurance to medical care. Miami remains Latin America's Wall Street, with about $25 billion in foreign deposits, but now Latin Americans also come for kidnap insurance and trendy laparoscopic surgery on their gallbladders...
...abortion clinic and waking up days later handcuffed to a bed in a basement where you will be held prisoner until it is too late to get an abortion. You are the captive of a Christian underground prepared to do anything to protect a fetus' rights, even kidnap you, take you hundreds of miles from home and "document" your experience as an unwilling mother. Your captors mean to use you as a public test case proving they know what is best. Indeed, you were chosen specifically because you were raped -- the rape victim has always been the most nettlesome case...
...authority. He keeps referring to himself as "the head of the family." He condescends unashamedly to the day-to-day keeper, a grandmotherly woman who is trained as a registered nurse and who is old enough to be his mother. In the most unnerving scene, he brings in the kidnap victim's estranged husband, an alcoholic abuser who considers himself saved by born-again Christianity. It was he who, in the aftermath of their breakup, raped his wife as a way of reasserting his claim. Speaking in an affectless, almost lobotomized-sounding whisper, the husband alternately pledges...
...indictment sketched out the case, the plotters allegedly intended to kidnap and/or murder supposed enemies of Islam much as they had gunned down Meir Kahane, the virulent leader of the rightist Kach organization. The targets named included a New York state assemblyman ally of Kahane's, the state judge who sentenced Nosair, and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Two months ago, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali boasted that the conspirators had recruited a pilot willing to bomb Mubarak's presidential palace in Cairo. In the U.S. future bombing targets allegedly included unspecified military installations as well as the George Washington Bridge...
...North Korea (no casualties, but why go?) are advertising their supposed charms. "Be a Chinese soldier for a day" gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "military tour." "Visit Shibam, famous for its exquisite Yemenite architecture." Oops, forgot to mention the bands of armed tribesmen who routinely kidnap Westerners. "Revel in the spectacular scenery of Vietnam's China Beach." Regret that most hotels are Stalinist-style tenements built by the Soviets...