Hostages

A hostage is a person seized by a criminal abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum. The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica defines a hostage as "a person who is handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against certain acts of war."A person who seizes …

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1 January 2017 English

In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …

Albanian government’s decision to release some Greek hostages.51 In June 1962, Averoff openly told British Ambassador


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

Czechoslovak security organs, we are f kind of hostages at political and chiefly economic talks V- •


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French

Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages, acts of the International Telecommunications Union, and the Nice agreement on the registration


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

CONVENTION ON THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE UN HOSTAGES CONVENTION REPLIES TO SOVIET DECLARATIONS (FR)


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

ascendancy. Moreover, as I recollect, he had given hostages to fortune: his wife is the sister of Galina


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

smoothly, the West is because of the American hostages). The Islamic revo- showing no further Inclination


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French

A file containing documents concerning travel by Allied officials to and from Berlin. Subjects covered in the file include sector-crossing procedures for British officials visiting East Berlin; trials of a …

border and of the East Berlin Embassy staffsas hostages to fortune. If the U S still wanted to force


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the economic situation in Yugoslavia. The documents cover meetings of the five main Western creditors convened to discuss the economic situation in Yugoslavia; …

what we have in mind if they are not to give hostages to fortune. 4. The objective of the US operation


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the Soviet attitude to the Falklands War. The documents cover articles published in the Soviet press and statements made by Soviet officials criticising …

treatment of American attempts to rescue the hostages from I r a n as evidence of American desire to Atlantic allegedly from humane motives: our 'hostages' must be saved.' This is how the Press here e t s ' to add that no one is preventing the 'hostages' from leaving the islands whenever they wish


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French

A file containing documents concerning the position of Jews in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include increased harassment of Jews attempting to emigrate; a deterioration in the …

handle the above points without creating any hostages to fortune, but I do not think he disappointed


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