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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...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: It's Only Rock and Roll | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

...Defiant Puerto Rican terrorists boycott the courtroom

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Trial Without Defendants | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Trial Without Defendants | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wells Fargo Stickup | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Back in Anger | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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