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...breached our laws and was sentenced by court for that." But Gorbachev flushed and swallowed hard when Interviewer Yves Mourousi asked whether it is true that there are 4 million political prisoners in the Soviet Union. The Soviet leader called the question "absurd, that recalls the propa- ganda of (Josef) Goebbels," the Nazi minister...
Though the spies were falling thick and fast, both the Kohl government and the West German opposition were eager to prevent the disclosures from undermining efforts by the two Germanys to improve relations. With Kohl's blessing, Franz Josef Strauss, the Bavarian conservative leader, planned to visit East Germany this week for the annual Leipzig trade fair and a meeting with East German Party Boss Erich Honecker. In addition, former Chancellor Willy Brandt intends to see Honecker in East Berlin later in the month. In that sense, though the spies may have been real, officials in both countries seemed...
...Pontiff's circumspect language, said Czechoslovak Josef Cardinal Tomko, a member of the Pope's inner circle in Rome, was dictated by the "hope of receiving from the other side a response equally conciliatory, human and constructive." Lately there have been small but significant signs of change. Last year the Czechoslovak weekly newspaper Tribuna called John Paul "one of the most reactionary Popes of this century." But last May, another state- controlled paper, Katolicke Noviny, lauded John Paul as the "untiring hero of international detente." The seeming thaw in East bloc-Vatican relations was not in evidence last year when...
...tape that featured martial music and a speech by Adolf Hitler at a rally. The pieces of the puzzle were coming together, and they suggested that the body found at Embu did indeed belong to the "Angel of Death" and the world's most hunted war criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele...
Paulo federal police headquarters. A businesslike Dr. Lowell Levine, a forensic specialist from the U.S. Justice Department, stepped forward and announced the experts' unanimous conclusion: "The skeleton is that of Josef Mengele within a reasonable scientific certainty." Later, the Americans reported that they had "absolutely no doubt" of their findings...