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ROBERT DUVALL, BULKED UP INSIDE HIS military overcoat and nearly expressionless beneath a bushy mustache, looks as much like Frankenstein's monster as Joseph Stalin in HBO's new film about the Soviet dictator. Certainly his deeds are just as monstrous, and even more unfathomable. Directed by Ivan Passer, STALIN vividly chronicles the revolutionary footsoldier's rise to power and his ruthless, increasingly paranoid reign of terror. The scenes of Stalin's 1930s' purges are especially chilling, and the film gratifyingly avoids hokey re-creations of "big" historical events like the Yalta Conference. Still, despite Duvall's intense performance...
...investigation was prompted by appeals from Demjanjuk's attorneys and new evidence from records of the former Soviet Union indicating Demjanjuk was not the infamous "Ivan the Terrible" guard of the Treblinka death camp. Instead, Soviet lists showed that Demjanjuk was a guard at the Sobibor camp...
George Parker, a former government prosecutor, testified last week that Ryan and Walter Rockler, who headed the Office of Special Investigations, rebuffed him when he expressed doubts about the government's evidence that Demjanjuk was "Ivan the Terrible...
Justice prosecutors did change their strategy, adding the charge that Demjanjuk served as a guard at Sobibor, but without dropping the allegation that he was the "Ivan the Terri- ble" of Treblinka...
Earlier this year, The Cleveland Plain-Dealerobtained a Justice Department memo in which adifferent prosecutor asked Ryan to pressure theSoviet Union for information about Ivan Marczenko,now widely believed to be the real "Ivan theTerrible." It is not known whether Ryan, in aJanuary 1980 trip to Moscow, asked Sovietofficials about Marczenko...