(22 Mar 1998) T/I 10:48:11
Two young United States Mormon missionaries turned up safe in
the ancient central Russian city of Saratov on the River Volga
on Sunday (22/03) morning after their kidnappers abandoned them
following a failed US$300,000 ransom attempt, police said.
Reporting the release, Itar-Tass agency said both 20 year-old
men were unharmed. Kidnappers seized Andrew Propst and Travis
Robert Tuttle from a Mormon church in Saratov, 700 kilometres
(450 miles) south-east of Moscow, three days ago then issued the
ransom demand.
SHOWS:
USA/RUSSIA 22/03
USA
00:00: ws internet page with pic of Travis Tuttle
00:10: cu internet pic of Tuttle
00:20: ws internet page with pic of Andrew Propst (wearing hat)
00:30: cu internet pic of Propst
SARATOV, RUSSIA
00:40: ws house where Mormons live
00:44: cu door to Mormons flat
00:48: cu woman talking at door
00:55: ws exterior of orthodox church
01.02: SOT Alexander Dvorkin, professor of sectology (in
English): "They look so ostensibly American, so
ostensibly, kind of, you know, rich among our poverty so
perhaps, you know, some criminal structures or desperate
people decided to break the law and to kidnap them as
they would kidnap any rich foreigners."
01:21: ms people inside church
01:25: ms people coming out of church
01.31: VISION ENDS
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