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...Texas, another that had him arriving on a Miami-bound plane. He was said to have taken vacations in Egypt, Italy and Greece, and by one account, to have spent time in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Often he was said to be living in a heavily fortified villa in the Paraguayan hinterland, complete with a Mercedes-Benz 280SL and four armed guards. According to Simon Wiesenthal, the doctor was most recently spotted last summer in a Mennonite village in Paraguay called Valendam. One year earlier, in fact, Wiesenthal had observed that the 10,000 members of that close-knit community would...
Elsewhere, tantalizing tidbits trickled out to support both sides of the Mengele argument. Six days before the exhumation at Embu, Alfonz Dierckx, a Belgian photographer based in Paraguay, told the Paraguayan paper Hoy that Mengele, whom he had known in the early 1960s, had gone to a German colony in Brazil. There, said Dierckx, he had drowned some years earlier...
...Isser Harel, the head of MOSSAD at the time, recalls in his memoir, The House on Garibaldi Street, his men were convinced on at least three other occasions that they had cornered Mengele: in 1961 on a farm near the sleepy Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, in 1962 on a farm near Sao Paulo, and a few months later along the Paraguayan-Brazilian border. Each time they came away emptyhanded...
...stray pieces of evidence seemed to support the Bosserts' story. Brazilian police did indeed record a drowning at Bertioga on the day in question, and a few months later the Paraguayan government, which had granted Mengele citizenship in 1959, inexplicably canceled it. Also, the exhumed body did not have its arms crossed, as is usual in Brazil, but was placed with the arms extended by the side. In the letters found in Gunzburg, Mengele had stipulated that he be buried in such a position. And last month an elderly farmer in eastern Paraguay told a film crew from...
...kind of gunplay is a serious matter at the Olympics, where a Paraguayan trackman put up such a scuffle over a starter's pistol he had been waving around recklessly that he spiked a policeman and was charged with battery. At a city hall ceremony belatedly honoring the eleven Israeli athletes murdered in 1972 (unattended by the International Olympic Committee), weapon-bearing officers were posted on the rooftop. Wherever Israel's team travels in one of the Games' old yellow school buses, a wedge of police motorcycles and cars clear...