Word: executor
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Next on the Wiesenthal hit list is Alois Brunner, a lieutenant of Adolf Eichmann's, the executor of Hitler's "final solution." Brunner, now about 80, is thought responsible for the deportation of 128,000 Jews from Austria, France, Greece and Slovakia to the death camps. He has long been believed to be hiding behind the alias Georg Fischer in Syria. The Israeli intelligence service reportedly once sent him a package bomb that cost him four fingers. Unconfirmed reports of his death have surfaced recently...
...challenged an Oklahoma law that allowed women, but not men, to buy alcoholic beverages at 18. She also won cases arguing that dependents of women in the military should have the same housing arrangements as men and that it was unconstitutional to prefer the father over the mother as executor of a son's estate...
...only the interests of the rich and powerful. In February a state appeals court in Acre overturned -- on grounds of insufficient evidence -- the conviction of rancher Darly Alves da Silva for his participation in the Chico Mendes murder and ordered a retrial. "The conviction was the first time an executor of a crime against an activist was brought to justice," says Sueli Bellato, one of the prosecuting attorneys in the Mendes case. "The reversal is an incentive to continue the killing...
...allegation that the novelist and the racist were one and the same was swiftly disputed by the author's executor and Asa Earl Carter's brother Doug. The latter did acknowledge that Asa wrote speeches for Alabama's George Wallace, including the infamous lines "Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever!" But old friends point out that Asa and Forrest Carter looked alike, used the same address and were the same age. Perhaps the book should be retitled The Mystery of Little Tree...
...Biography. Middlebrook, a professor of English at Stanford University, is judicious and canny. She appreciates both Sexton's gifts as a poet and her attractive side as a human being (humor, intensity) but looks at her destructive weaknesses with a steady eye. Linda Sexton, who is now 38 and executor of her mother's estate, cooperated with the biographer and on the whole admires the end result...