Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final act of a dramatic and drawn-out manhunt, a bitter trail of false identities, narrow escapes and never-ending questions. For more than a quarter-century, Nazi hunters from Israel and other countries had crisscrossed Europe and much of South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death." Was the hunt finally about to end? Or would the searchers discover that they had been duped in a giant hoax, lured into an ingeniously woven web of disinformation, implying that Mengele, a man with a $3.4 million reward on his head, might still be at large...
...Last week, on a brilliant autumn afternoon, 200 people converged on a cemetery in the town of Embu, some 25 miles south of the Brazilian industrial center of Sao Paulo. They had come to see the exhumation of what Brazilian authorities believed were the remains of Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death," the notorious Nazi death-camp doctor who had escaped from justice at the end of World...
...Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits, this conventional plot line is infused with a flair for fantasy and magic pecliar to the gfreat I am American author of the last 25 years Like Miguel Angel Asturials and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Children Allende presents such oddities as a child who can see the future, a beautiful woman with almost transparent skin and green hair and a dog larger than a horse with utter disregard for any possible disbelief. Like the best of Marquez, The House of The Sports retains the innocence. Which comes from writing about the bizarre...
...Mormons teach that God and Jesus Christ directly commissioned Smith to disseminate divine scriptures, inscribed on plates of gold that had been buried by ancient Israelites who had migrated to America. According to Smith's 1838 account of the momentous event, the angel Moroni showed him the site outside Palmyra where the plates were hidden. Harris is one of the Mormon Church's "Three Witnesses," who attest that they too saw the plates, so his truthfulness is also a matter of faith. The Harris letter, dated seven months after the publication of the Book of Mormon, recounts what he says...
...wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. He is said to have narrowly eluded Israeli agents who kidnaped fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires--and then taken up residence in neighboring Paraguay, where he is rumored to be living today. Now 74, Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," has become not only a symbol of evil but the world's most hunted and elusive war criminal. He also carries the largest bounty ever placed on a human being: $3.4 million...