Word: ransomes
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While the four French prisoners captured by Berber bandits last month (TIME, Oct. 31) languished in unknown circumstances, a French emissary and a tribal chieftain, one Sheik Ben Naceur, bargained last week for their ransom...
...tribesmen murdered their captives or were they merely holding them for ransom...
...safe and more or less sound, "as prisoners of war," by one Si Hocine Bou Temga, terrifying tribal chief, at Brahim, high up in the Atlas Mountains. A rescue party set out through torrential rains that were covering the mountains with snow to bargain with the chief for the ransom of the prisoners...
Meantime, with Morrocco and France holding their breath, troops stood by ready to invade the tribal lair and deal swift justice, should the negotiations for the ransom break down...
...plane was sighted, wrecked on the North African sea dunes, 60 miles from Cape Juby. Then a native trotted in to civilization with a letter from Major Larre-Borges. Moorish tribesmen had taken him and his comrades and their possessions into camp, he said. There must be a ransom. Uruguay cabled its diplomats to spare no cost. Spain mustered a military rescue party. Semi-financial negotiations moved. Commercial planes flew out to pick up the castaways...