Word: ilyich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thugs heists Manhattan, no less; in another, Muslim-backed bullyboys hold Queen Elizabeth II hostage. The authors tend to go in for archetype casting: scheming Arabs, for example, are now as thick as No. 2 crude, and several new novels are based on the machinations of Carlos, a.k.a. Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, the shadowy, ubiquitous terrorist mastermind whom the free world's police have been trying to nab for a decade...
...with an American journalist, and the officials had carefully rehearsed their opening thoughts. Baltabai Yusupov, an Uzbek newspaper editor in Tashkent, even introduced what he called "strictly my own personal opinion" by noting for the record: "Of course, I personally agree entirely with the position expressed by Comrade Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev in Pravda." Last month the Soviet President justified the invasion as a defense of Afghanistan against intervention by the forces of "imperialism...