TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: THE HUNT FOR THE JACKAL, Carlos, who started life as the Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, burst onto the public stage on 27 June, 1975, when he shot three French police officers and his Palestinian controller in an apart- ment in the Rue Toullier in Paris. Six months later, in Vienna, he led the most spectacular of all the bandit actions of that bandit era when he occupied the Opec sec- retariat, flew 11 oil ministers up and down the Middle East before handing them over for a ransom of $20 million in Saudi money at Algiers.