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...crime charges. What happened after that remains somewhat controversial to this day. According to France's renowned war criminal experts, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, American intelligence agents secretly recruited Barbie to conduct spying missions in eastern Germany immediately following Hitler's defeat. Barbie supposedly helped gather information on Soviet troop positions as well as on the whereabouts of other Gestapo fugitives wanted by Allied authorities; in return he was given a false identity, a home in Munich and the opportunity to get out of Germany while the Americans played dumb and refused French requests for his arrest...
During a session of the Israeli-Lebanese troop-withdrawal talks in the northern Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona last week, the chief Israeli military delegate, Major General Avraham Tamir, suddenly turned to top U.S. Negotiator Morris Draper, who is attending the negotiating sessions. Looking Draper straight in the eye, the General said in a loud and angry voice, "Nobody is going to influence us on matters of our defense. We will do what we please...
...School's chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild co-hosted the conference, which marked the anniversary of the start of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam ten years...
...Labor. But any new confrontation in the Falklands could upset the present mood, and last week just such a possibility was reported. Though Argentine officials denied that they were planning fresh hit-and-run attacks on the Falklands, U.S. State Department officers expressed some worry over intelligence reports of troop concentrations and exercises in southern Argentina. "They are up to something," says one U.S. intelligence official. "It may just be to keep the British on edge, to make them spend a lot of money on defense. But if you are British, you have to assume they'll try something...
Despite such bitter criticism, there is at least one faint sign that the U.S. approach might succeed. South African and Angolan representatives are expected to meet soon in the Cape Verde Islands to discuss not only the Cuban troop withdrawal, but South Africa's frequent raids into Angolan territory in search of SWAPO rebels. Whether the talks will contribute to a settlement is another matter. The bleak assessment from General Constand Viljoen, commander of the 20,000 South African troops fighting against SWAPO in Namibia, is that his occupying forces will not be withdrawn from the territory this year...