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...many other cities, it was carnival time last week. Masked dancers cavorted through the streets, children dressed up in demons' costumes and whole plazas were carpeted with confetti. In the midst of this celebration, a stocky, thick-necked German named Klaus Altmann sat glumly in a cell of the high-walled San Pedro jail. Newly arrested after nearly 30 years as a fugitive, he confronts the prospect of a French murder trial...
Klaus Barbie, 59, was the Gestapo chief in Lyon. In 1954, a French military court sentenced him to death in absentia for the torture and murder of Jean Moulin, the martyred leader of the French Resistance. Today Barbie lives as a wealthy, naturalized businessman under the name of Klaus Altmann in La Paz, Bolivia. France's request for his extradition has been ignored by the Bolivian government...
...question last week after revelation of the very different attitude that President Georges Pompidou has taken toward two such criminals, one German and one French. The German is Klaus Barbie, who was Gestapo chief in Lyon during World War II, and is living in Bolivia under the name Klaus Altmann (TIME, Feb. 14). Pompidou has been publicly and energetically demanding Altmann's extradition to France. Now the weekly L'Express has revealed that Pompidou, against the advice of his Minister of Justice, last November secretly granted a full pardon to another Lyon war criminal, a Frenchman named Paul...
...French are convinced that Barbie is alive and well-in the person of a wealthy naturalized Bolivian businessman named Klaus Altmann, who undeniably bears a strong resemblance to the missing Nazi (see cuts). Returning to La Paz from a trip to Peru two weeks ago, Altmann declared on Bolivian television that he had served with the SS in France and Holland and on the eastern front, but was not Barbie. Even though they tend to agree with French officers who insist that Altmann is Barbie, Bolivian authorities have not decided what to do about a French extradition request...
Sherwood L. Washburn, the University of California anthropologist, dismissed him as a "popularizer of data he does not understand." Dr. Stuart Altmann of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta suggested that the chief value of his second book was to amend the errors of the first. After reading the same text, Edmund Leach, the British anthropologist, announced that it was "best left alone altogether." Despite such forthright professional judgments of his writings, Robert Ardrey, 61, the author of two anthropological bestsellers, African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966), has now produced another work in the same field...