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"Terrorists Are Jailed for Life after Disrupted Trial Lasting 103 Weeks"

Newspaper article

By: Dan Van der Vat

Date: April 29, 1977

Source: The Times, a daily newspaper based in London.

About the Author: Dan Van der Vat, at the time the article was written, lived in Germany. He worked for six years as a journalist and foreign correspondent for the Times (London). He has also worked for the Guardian. In both positions, Van der Vat specialized in political and defense writing. During his journalistic career, Van der Vat, a historian and expert on modern warfare, has written such books as Gentlemen of War: The Amazing Story of Captain Karl von Müller and the S.M.S. Emden (1984), Pacific Campaign: World War II, the...