Fortune's Hostages: kidnapping in the world today

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Fortune's Hostages: kidnapping in the world today
libdoc November=1991

Author: Moorehead Caroline
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton 1980 pp.256
Keywords: Terrorism Europe

Contents:

Part 1 Kidnapping for ransom
1. Kidnapping: a history
2. The snatch racket: the US in the thirties
3. Sardinia: October 1978
4. I sequestrabili: Italy in the seventies

Part 2 Political kidnapping
5. The diplomat as hostage
6. The businessman as hostage
7. Political kidnapping comes to Europe: Aldo Moro and the Red
Brigades
8. Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the Baader-Meinhof gang

Part 3 Reactions
9. On being a victim
10. The world fights back
11. Looking for protection
12. Hostage of the fortune

Bibliography
Index

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