Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Missions. The kidnapers disposed of all clues by burning the kidnap car and dropping their typewriter into the Seine. Pierre and Raymond decided that life was, at last, loverly. Pierre got a Studebaker and a small Fiat; Raymond bought a Peugeot, a Chevrolet Impala and a Thunderbird. Their girl friends, Ingelise and Rolande, blossomed out in new clothes...
...Rule by Kidnap. Kivu, a land of rich highlands and rolling farms once run by Belgians, was easily won. Gizenga simply sent several Jeeploads of troops swooping into Bukavu, Kivu's capital, to negotiate with the wavering Kivu provincial leaders. When the latter refused to disavow Mobutu, the invaders simply kidnaped the conferees-Kivu's provincial president, a couple of his ministers and the local army commander-and hauled them back to Stanleyville to get them out of the way. Suddenly, Kivu had a new provincial boss, who turned out to be another Lumumba crony, former Minister...
sneeze (underworld)-kidnap...
...week began with Argentina's protest to the U.N. Security Council that the kidnap of Mass Murderer Eichmann from Buenos Aires by Jewish "volunteers" was "incompatible with the preservation of international law." Argentina demanded "just reparations" and the punishment of those responsible. To avoid a showdown, an attempt was made to arrange a friendly meeting in Belgium between Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion and Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, who were both touring the Continent. Ben-Gurion agreed, provided that the return of Eichmann was not an issue. Other Israelis had resentfully pointed out that Argentina had provided...
...Wife: a man (Gary Cooper) and a girl (Claudette Colbert) meet at a d'epartment store counter because she tries to buy only the pants of a pair of pajamas and he only the top. One of Wilder's current and so far unused openers : the Russians kidnap a famous American actress, who might be Marilyn Monroe, in West Berlin; they take her away to brainwash her, but she beats them because she has no brain to wash. Another: a high-ranking Communist defects to the West, leaving his wife and three children behind in Russia. When they...