Word: ilyich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jordanian desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander of that attack was Haddad's sometime deputy, the notorious Venezuelan known as Carlos (real name: Ilyich Ramírez-Sánchez). Carlos has served as the liaison man between terrorist groups in Europe and the Middle East...
...Office Bonanza. Prior to the 1892 première at the Maryinsky Theater in old St. Petersburg, Russia, Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky thought that Nutcracker was much inferior to his The Sleeping Beauty. "Yes, the old fellow is getting worn out," he concluded. Tchaikovsky was one of music's great pessimists. The score is an indestructible delight. Over the years Nutcracker has probably played to more children, parents and lovers of both dance and make-believe than any other ballet in history...
Lenin in Poland will undoubtedly prove to be more interesting than, say, Gidget in Poland, since Ilyich is always a pleasure to watch, but in this case the location is unworthy of him. The only time he could have been there is with the Red army invasion of 1920, so expect hidden justifications of post-1945 revolution at bayonet point...
...raid leader was indeed the Carlos, however, his name is Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez. He is 26, the son of a Venezuelan Communist intellectual who gave each of three sons one of Lenin's names: Vladimir, Ilyich and Lenin. Carlos was recruited by the KGB in his homeland and sent to Moscow's Lumumba University for training sometime in the late '60s. He also attended four special institutes run by the Soviet secret police near Moscow, where he took courses in political indoctrination, sabotage, the use of weapons and killer karate...
...Algiers? Backing up the skepticism of French police, some of the hostages said that the gang's leader did not look like pictures of Carlos. But Venezuela's oil minister, Valentín Hernàndez Acosta, insisted that "the head of the commandos was definitely Ilyich Ramírez Sànchez, alias Carlos." Added another OPEC official: "If Carlos is a Latin American of medium height who speaks Spanish, French, English, German and Arabic, and if he is a cool killer who can also be polite to his hostages, then probably it was Carlos who kept...