Word: minichiello
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiter at Rome's suburban restaurant I Fontanone says that he hopes he will not become a tourist attraction. But Raffaele Minichiello, the U.S. Marine who skyjacked a TWA jet 6,900 miles from California to Italy two years ago, has been getting something of a play in the Italian press with his first job since his release from jail in April. The great thing about the job is being always with people, says Mini, as the papers call him. "I'm very shy, and this is good...
...15th skyjacking attempt on scheduled U.S: airlines this year.* Only this time the destination seemed reminiscent of the 1969 skyjacking in which Raphael Minichiello, a U.S. Marine, commandeered an airliner for a 17-hour odyssey to Rome. Minichiello was released from an Italian jail last spring after serving only 18 months of a 71-year sentence for the crime...
...commandeered an airport maintenance truck and was driven, surrounded by an escort of police cars, to the international airport. Being towed out for him at a remote corner of a runway was a fully fueled Boeing 707. Its crew was to be headed by Captain Bill Williams, who flew Minichiello to Rome...
...Minichiello originally faced up to 32 years in prison on three charges connected with importing a "weapon of war," his M-l carbine, and three counts of assaulting and kidnaping the plane crew and an Italian police official. Last November, a criminal court in Rome managed to limit his penalty to 71 years after the defense eloquently described him as a "Don Quixote without Dulcinea, without Sancho Panza, who instead of mounting his Rocinante flew across the skies...
General Amnesty. Last week when his case came up for appeal, his defense attorneys startled the judges by producing in court a locally bought hunting rifle with the same ballistic characteristics as Minichiello's M-l and arguing that therefore the charges against him of importing a "weapon of war" should be dropped. The court saw merit in the argument and reduced his sentence to 3½ years. After the decision was handed down, the losing Italian prosecutor walked over to Minichiello, patted him on the back, and admonished him to "be a good boy from...