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Brownback, who won the Benjamin Trustman Fellowship, plans to continue a study that she began last year of orphanages in Central and South America. She said she will use the scholarship money to travel to Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico and Columbia next year...
...moment. Accused War Criminal Klaus Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyons," was calmly answering as presiding Judge Andre Cerdini probed his career with the Nazi SS, his work for U.S. Army Intelligence after the war, his flight to South America in 1951 and, finally, his 1983 expulsion from Bolivia to stand trial in France. Unexpectedly, Barbie asked Cerdini for permission to read a statement. "I am being held here illegally," said the defendant without emotion, referring to his oft-repeated contention that he was unlawfully expelled from Bolivia. "I am the victim of a kidnaping...
Personally, I'm heading south for fall semester at Bolivia...
...Butcher of Lyons," who eluded his postwar pursuers for almost 40 years with help from the U. S. and other governments, goes on trial next week for crimes against humanity. Will Klaus Barbie, seized by Nazi- hunters in Bolivia and extradited to France, now name those who assisted him in escaping justice and force a judgment day for nations as well as individuals...
...world has shown for too long toward escaped SS killers. A victory too over the governments that helped Barbie. It was the Klarsfelds who picked up his trail -- he had disappeared for almost 40 years into the identity of a prosperous and peaceful businessman named Klaus Altmann living in Bolivia. They were the ones who managed to persuade Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government to act, to induce the Bolivian government to expel "Altmann" so that he could be returned to the country of his crimes...