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...possible. The Soviet Union once could count on East Germany to penetrate West Germany, Czechoslovakia to target military and industrial sources in the West, and Bulgaria to carry out assassinations. Now, however, the KGB's symbiotic relationship with Warsaw Pact agencies is threatened by reformist governments in the region. Though these countries' foreign operations have not yet been curtailed, some spies -- especially East Germans -- are trying to come in from the cold. Last month Markus Wolf, the former head of East German intelligence whose prowess at placing agents in Bonn's highest offices led to his depiction as the formidable...
What kind of conductor is New York getting? As he showed last week in leading the Gewandhaus Orchestra though performances of Beethoven's Fidelio and Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Salzburg Easter Festival in Austria, Masur is capable of drawing passionate, powerful playing from his musicians. Neither a disciplinarian nor one of the boys, Masur favors a let-us-reason- together approach that prizes loyalty and enthusiasm over virtuosity. Not surprisingly, his repertoire is centered on the classics from Mozart to Mahler, which he conducts with short punchy gestures, usually without a baton. In Leipzig...
...Walesa, though, has grown unhappy playing second fiddle to Mazowiecki. While the Prime Minister was in Warsaw making policy and winning headlines, Walesa has been running what often seemed a shadow government from a second-floor office near the Gdansk shipyards that were his springboard into history. In recent weeks he began criticizing the government for the slow pace of reform. Says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences: "He is having to share a stage that was once his alone, and he doesn't like...
...Wiesenthal decided to tell his story all over again. Though presented as a new book, some of its narratives remain almost exactly the same -- Wiesenthal's pursuit of the police officer who arrested Anne Frank, for example. Others needed updating. In The Murderers Among Us, Wiesenthal located Treblinka Commandant Franz Stangl working at a Volkswagen plant in Sao Paulo; shortly after Wiesenthal's book appeared, Stangl was arrested and sent to prison. On the other hand, Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, whom Wiesenthal had described as hiding in Paraguay, was subsequently found to have drowned in & Brazil (though Wiesenthal continues...
Wiesenthal's new editorial collaborators do not serve his purposes well. Instead of benefiting from Wechsberg's competent prose, this new autobiography has been translated from the German by Ewald Osers, and it is studded with Anglicisms like lorries, plimsolls, doing a bunk and getting the stick. And though the publishers exaggeratedly claim that Wiesenthal "engineered" the Eichmann capture, Wiesenthal himself says only that his effort to prevent Eichmann's wife from having Eichmann declared legally dead "was probably my most important contribution to the Eichmann case...