Paris, 10 July - France expelled three high-ranking Cuban diplomats today in connection with the world-wide search for a man called Carlos, who is believed to be an important link in an international terrorist network.
The suspect, whose real name is thought to be Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is being sought in the killing of two French counter-intelligence agents and a Lebanese informer at a Latin Quarter aparI'ment on 27 June.
The three killings have led the police here and in Britain to what they feel is the trail of a major network of international terrorist agents. In the search for Carlos after the killings, French and British policemen discovered large arms caches that linked Carlos to major terrorism in West Germany and led them to suspect a connection between many terrorist acts throughout Europe.
REPORTED SEEN IN LONDON
Since then Carlos has been reported seen in London and in Beirut, Lebanon.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONDAY, 7 JULY 1975
SYNDICATED DISPATCH
A DRAGNET FOR ASSASSIN
London (AP) - Guns and girls, grenades and good suits, a well-stuffed wallet, airline tickets to romantic places and nice aparI'ments in half a dozen world capitals. This is the portrait emerging of a jet-age assassin being sought in an international manhunt
The hunt began when the man answered his doorbell In Paris and shot dead two French intelligence agents and a Lebanese informer. It has put four women into custody in two capitals, accused of offences in his wake. The assassin himself has vanished - perhaps in Lebanon, the French police believe.
In the past few days in London, those acquainted with him have described him to reporters as good looking, courteous, well educated, wealthy and fashionably dressed.
But his associates are men and women who have been called the most dangerous in the world. He is said to be linked with the Japanese Red Army, the Organization for the Armed Arab Struggle, the West German Baader-Meinhof gang, the Quebec Liberation Front, the Turkish Popular Liberation Front, separatists in France and Spain and the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.
When the assassin travelled - to Paris, to the Hague, to West Berlin - bombs went off, guns cracked and there were kidnappings.
A breakthrough occurred in Paris when a Lebanese terrorist broke under questioning and led two intelligence men to the assassin's door on 27 June. He shot all three to death and escaped. Police found his guns and notebooks containing 'death lists' of prominent people.
Yesterday the London Observer said police were hunting for the son of a Venezuelan Communist lawyer for questioning in the triple slaying. Scotland Yard said, 'We are not denying the report', but added there was no charge against him and he was wanted only for questioning.
The Observer identified the hunted man as Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, of Caracas. It said his name was on one of the four passports found by French police when they raided the Paris flat where the slayings took place.
The newspaper said Ilich was named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, and was educated in Moscow and speaks fluent Russian.
In Caracas, a spokesman for the Venezuelan Communist Party said Ilich is the son of a seventy-year-old Marxist lawyer living 450 miles west of Caracas, but 'neither father nor son belong to our party'.
He told reporters he did not know where Ilich was now.
Book 1 Chapter One
1
The trawler plunged into the angry swells of the dark, furious sea like an awkward animal trying desperately to break out of an impenetrable swamp. The waves rose to Goliathan heights, crashing into the hull with the power of raw tonnage; the white spray caught in the night sky cascaded down over the deck under the force of the night wind. Everywhere there were the sounds of inanimate pain, wood straining against wood, ropes twisting, stretched to the breaking point. The animal was dying.
Two abrupt explosions pierced the sounds of the sea and the wind and the vessel's pain. They came from the dimly lit cabin that rose and fell with its host body. A man lunged out of the door grasping the railing with one hand, holding his stomach with the other.
A second man followed, the pursuit cautious, his intent violent. He stood bracing himself in the cabin door; he raised a gun and fired again. And again.
The man at the railing whipped both his hands up to his head, arching backwards under the impact of the fourth bullet. The trawler's bow