U.S. couple spend full year in Philippine jungle after abduction by Muslim extremists (AP)

A NATION CHALLENGED: FRAUD; 25 People Charged in Schemes To Obtain 9/11 Charity Funds $2.50 (The New York Times Archive)
...Flemming and another defendant, Lonnie Ransom, 49, then drove the workers to relief sites around the city,......

A NATION CHALLENGED: JOURNALISTS; Trial in Murder of Reporter Begins With Legal Maneuvers $2.50 (The New York Times Archive)
...News agencies then received e-mailed ransom messages along with photographs of Mr.......

Illinois’s Longest-Serving Inmate’s New Hope of Freedom $2.50 (The New York Times Archive)
...Moreover, the handwriting on a ransom note for Suzanne Degnan was later shown not to be his. The six-prison system of...

Abducted US Couple Endures Full Year (AP)
...Philippine officials ruled out any direct U.S. military role or ransom payments to free the couple, and President Glo...

THEATER; Bye, Bye ’American Pie’; Mrs. Robinson Is Calling $2.50 (The New York Times Archive)
...As the World Turns’’ as a troubled teenager who stole a bundle of ransom money and was written into obliv...

Expired Domains; New Path to Web For Pornography $2.50 (The New York Times Archive)
... leads to a feeling among many former site owners that their reputations are being held for ransom.......