Word: ilich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARIS: The trial ended the way it began ? with extravagant outbursts of rhetoric. "Viva la revolucion!" shouted Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, as he raised his left arm in retro-revolutionary defiance. And, as trial-watchers have come to expect, that wasn't all. Asking for a microphone so he could play to supporters who had packed the courtroom, Carlos went on to denounce the "McDonalds-ization of humanity," and placed himself on "the side of civilization" against "world Zionism" and the omnipotent American demon...
PARIS: As the trial of suspected terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez ? better known as Carlos the Jackal ? enters its second action-packed week, defense lawyers are battling desperately to stop it coming to a halt altogether. The highlights...
...Wait a minute. I thought Carlos fired his lawyers? True ? in fact, as he shouted at the judge last week, Ilich doesn't recognize the authority of the entire court. But that doesn't stop Coutant-Peyre fulfilling her legal obligation to act on his behalf...
...Quote of the Day: "You can't do a slapdash job of the trial of the man who is the world's main terrorist," said Ilich's new lawyer. He'd ditched his old attorneys on Friday...
...there to turn him in? That's what the prosecution hoped. But she let them down, claiming what she wrote in the book ? that Ilich had confessed the 1975 murder of two French agents to her ? was fiction...