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What you have in Sucking is a defiant challenge: "We can throw out the also-ran songs from any three albums, include a couple of live cuts, wrap the whole mess in cellophane, and you'll still...
...Defiant Puerto Rican terrorists boycott the courtroom
Last week the terrorists appeared in court for sentencing, thoroughly shackled but still defiant. Most, like Ringleader Carlos Alberto Torres, 28, shouted "Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" Carmen Valentin, 34, a former Chicago teacher, threatened Federal Judge Thomas R. McMillen: "If I weren't chained, I'd try to take care of you right now." For his part, McMillen told Ricardo Jimenez, 24: "If there were a death penalty for these crimes, I'd impose it on you without any hesitation."Depending on how unrepentant he found each to be, McMillen handed down sentences ranging from...
...affair took another bizarre twist last week, when Smith telephoned newspaper and radio reporters in New York City and Los Angeles to give his version of the story. In a defiant but desperate voice he maintained that he was the "scapegoat" in a pervasive plot that involved 35 Wells Fargo officers in 20 branches of the bank. The amount stolen, he said, was actually between $200 million and $300 million. Smith claimed that when suspicions began to surface at Wells Fargo three weeks ago, a group of bank employees raided his Pacific Palisades home and kidnaped his four-year...
Even at the last moment, Metrinko was defiant. When he was boarding the bus to go to the Algerian plane that was to fly the hostages to freedom, a guard called him an "American bastard." Replied Metrinko: "Shut up, you son of a prostitute." Guards dragged Metrinko off the bus; as it left for the airport, they punched him a few times. But he was finally taken to the airport in a car. Says Metrinko: "I was awfully close to missing the whole show...