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...news of the escapade circulated through the courthouse, a squadron of police wearing bulletproof vests and armed with submachine guns, belatedly barricaded the judge's chambers, where the trio now held nine hostages. Over the phone, Jubin's woman lawyer, Genevieve Aïche, urged her client to give himself up: "You'll never be able to escape." He refused. "If I fail," he snarled, "just put roses on my grave...
...have the sin and the aura of intrigue and the giddy opulence. The once-imposing semicircle of banks and commercial houses along the Hwang Pu River only dimly reflects the day when Western tycoons lounged in the lobby of the Cathay (now Peace) Hotel or wheeled around in bulletproof cars...
...toting submachine guns patrolled around Düsseldorfs courthouse last week, while a sharpshooter kept watch from a fourth-floor balcony and guards frisked everyone going inside the courtroom. The curtains were drawn to foil the aim of any potential sniper; in the dock, the defendant sat behind a bulletproof glass shield. Ordinarily, the charges would not have justified such stringent precautions, even though Karl-Heinz Ruhland, 33, had confessed to bank robbery, car theft, breaking into city halls and stealing passports. Authorities feared, however, that he might be rubbed out by his former associates before he could testify...
...knows how many prisoners were involved, but they took over a wing of the prison that normally houses more than 500 men. As at Attica, state troopers and prison guards donned bulletproof vests and helmets in preparation for an armed attack on the inmates. Inside, prisoners drew up a list of 15 demands, covering improved food and medical care, educational and rehabilitation programs, religious freedom, increased mail privileges. Three newsmen allowed into the cellblock at the prisoners' request heard echoes of Attica in the inmates' demands. Associated Press Correspondent Carl Zeitz, one of the three, wrote later: "Inmates...
There were occasional flashes of the familiar Fidel. Three hundred Cubans had been brought in to augment the Chilean security setup, so one newsman jestingly asked Castro if he was wearing a bulletproof vest, too. "Oye, it is as hot here as it is in Havana," he shot back. "I don't even wear an undershirt." But Castro plainly failed to arouse much excitement. When he arrived, a crowd of some 750,000 Chileans lined the streets of Santiago, chanting "Fidel, Fidel, give those Yankees hell!" Bigger and more enthusiastic crowds had turned out for Charles de Gaulle...