WORLD IN BRIEF : HUNGARY : Former Leaders Sheltered Carlos
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Carlos, the world’s most wanted terrorist, was given refuge by Hungary’s former Communist government at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s, Interior Minister Balazs Horvath said. Carlos--whose real name is Ilych Ramirez Sanchez--later died in Libya, probably killed by Libyan agents because he knew too much about Arab spy networks, Israeli reports said.
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