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Another of Vessenski's films is a fictionalized account of the story of Klaus Barbie, the ex-Nazi commander who was discovered hiding in Argentina by a team of journalists, including Vessenski himself. Barbie was wanted by the French for crimes committed during World...
...move was initiated by Finance Minister and C.D.R. mentor Vaclav Klaus, who is overseeing the transition from a state-run economy to the free market. In October the outspoken Klaus won an upset victory as Forum chairman over Havel's chosen candidate. Many members of the loosely aligned Liberal Club are longtime associates of Havel's and opposed Klaus in that vote. "We have decided on a divorce, Czech-style," Klaus said, "between a majority that elected me ((chairman)) and a minority view...
...didn't dissolve NATO in the euphoria of Gorbymania," says a senior British diplomat. No one expects the turmoil in Moscow to result in a new attempt to subjugate Eastern Europe or even to slow the departure of Soviet troops. "The Soviet withdrawal will go ahead as planned," predicted Klaus Segbers of Germany's Institute for Science and Policy. But the convulsions will undermine Western confidence in the Soviets as a worthwhile economic and military partner. The rapid improvement in East-West relations depends on a reforming Soviet Union. If Moscow is turning the clock back, the West will find...
...heirs $1 million to recoup the artworks. Several museum curators criticized the decision. Robert T. Buck, director of the Brooklyn Museum, told the New York Times, "The timing is horrible as a lesson to every American G.I. There's a . lot of art over there in Iraq." Klaus Maurice of the Cultural Foundation of the States in Germany, defended the deal his agency made. "Had we pursued the lawsuit," he argued, "the legal fees would have greatly exceeded the amount we agreed...
...billion this year, and are expected to rise 75% more by the year 2000. Additional funds and technology will undoubtedly go to help neighbors to the east modernize their industries and fight pollution. Both Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have offered to help Poland cleanse its air. Klaus Matthiesen, environment minister of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia, notes that spending on environmental preservation "must be regarded as an important motor of economic change...