Word: kidnappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy were a sincere public servant, he would not kidnap a state that has such an able Senator as Kenneth Keating. Why doesn't he run for Senator in Mississippi? There he is needed...
Unlike the U.S., where the sentence might be death, Japan is so lighthearted about kidnaping that sentences for the most successful snatches (unless they involve murder) seldom exceed six months. Japanese law is modeled on the German criminal code of 1907, which viewed kidnaping as a minor crime because it was so rare. But in postwar Japan, the soft law and a yen for yen have sharply increased what the French call "the American crime." Over a ten-year period, Japan recorded 4,728 kidnap cases, and the maximum penalty of ten years was given only 2% of the perpetrators...
...Diet last week approved far stiffer laws, including a kidnap penalty of three years to life, and the country's first kidnap-conspiracy rap (one month to two years). But if kidnapers give their victim a break, they will still get a break from the law: those who surrender and do not harm their victims will have their sentences halved. With time off for good behavior, a kidnaper sentenced to life may be sprung in seven years...
After the kidnap-slaying of a rich widow's young son, police chase the two killers to the wet end of a jetty in the harbor at Cannes. Suddenly, three men step forth, each claiming that he is an innocent bystander and the other two the culprits. All their alibis seem as dubious as their morals...
Frank Sinatra Jr., 20, carbonated copy of his pop, was about as accommodating a kidnap victim as anyone could want...