Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KIDNAP (597 pp.)-George Waller-Dial...
Object Lesson. For Trujillo understood the power of terror. Thousands of opponents perished quietly in SIM secret-police dungeons, in spectacular "auto accidents" and incredible "suicides." Trujillo's avenging arm reached even to the U.S. in the famed 1956 kidnap-murder of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, a bitter Trujillo critic and onetime tutor of the dictator's children. The peak of his terror was reached one October night in 1937, when Trujillo issued instructions to eliminate Haitian squatters along the northwest border. Working nonstop for 36 hours, Trujillo's highly efficient army butchered a reported...
...advance party of 60 Scots. British newspapers and trade unions argue that Britain itself, except for isolated pockets in Scotland and Northern Ireland, will soon be facing a labor shortage. Says Schlieker: "From some of the comments in British newspapers, you'd think I was trying to kidnap...
Jewry itself was divided on the case, and the pros and cons filled pages of the Israeli press. To many, the trial seemed vitally necessary to educate the younger generation of both Israel and Germany. But other Jews were deeply disturbed by the illegal kidnap-arrest of Eichmann in Argentina. Many were shocked that Eichmann had found it impossible to recruit ex-Nazi colleagues to serve as defense witnesses. Reason: the Israeli government had refused to promise that they themselves would not be arrested if they set foot on Israeli soil...
...dinner-dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip was marred by reports of an abortive kidnap plot against Daughter Caroline, inevitably made further news with her Easter wardrobe selections. She appeared scarved, barelegged and besandaled at Good Friday services. For Sunday she had assembled her standard pillbox hat-in blue straw-and matching two-piece, silk-shantung dress. For breathless garment-industry tycoons tilting at windfalls...