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...student at an Austrian university confessed last week to making over 10,000 harassing phone calls directed against Harvard Asian and Asian-American students, University detectives said...
Officials said the suspect is in his early twenties and still enrolled in an Austrian university...
Uncertain about who had jurisdiction, Markus Pirpamer, owner of the shelter, called police on both sides of the border. The Italian carabinieri, believing the body was that of an ill-fated climber, showed no interest. Their Austrian counterparts, who had already pulled eight corpses out of glaciers that summer, said they would investigate by the next afternoon. Pirpamer decided the next morning to go see for himself, and was flabbergasted: "I had seen bodies come out of the glacier," he recalls, "but this was nothing like them. Bodies trapped in the glacier are white and waxy and usually chewed...
Later that day, an Austrian policeman arrived by helicopter and attempted to free the body with a jackhammer. The brute-force tool chewed up the Iceman's garments and ripped through his left hip, exposing the bone. Fortunately, the officer ran out of compressed air to power the jackhammer before he could do further damage. His superiors decided to wait until the following week to resume the recovery; the helicopter, they explained, was needed for more important things...
...Platzer has decided to ignore Rome's objection. This month he will begin doling out minuscule bits of the Iceman for analysis by experts in many nations. "This find is for scientists all over the world," he argues. "It is ridiculous to say this is an Italian or an Austrian matter...