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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Korea University · 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
ascendancy. Moreover, as I recollect, he had given hostages to fortune: his wife is the sister of Galina …
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
intractable and emotional nature of the Iran hostages problem for the United States, they regarded …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
circumstances, ie wnere there has been maltreatment of hostages. Since the crimes were committed before the … further extended. Moreover, having released eight hostages the terrorists were in a position to keep a tighter … part in helping to secure the release of those hostages who were set free before the police went in. … in other democratic countries, the taking of hostages was not and never would be acceptable. He stressed … includes the names of the terrorists and of the hostages, and contains some details of the weaponry found …
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
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
smoothly, the West is because of the American hostages). The Islamic revo- showing no further Inclination …
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 …
