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...down the mad doctor who carried a $3.4 million bounty on his head. "There is a 90% chance it is Mengele," said Sao Paulo Federal Police Superintendent Romeu Tuma. "On the basis of documents and photographs, I'm 100% convinced that it is Mengele. But I'd prefer to await the results of the medical examiners...
...tour was useful to Nicaragua largely as a public relations exercise, the struggle on the country's northern border had more concrete significance. The contras, short of supplies after the denial of U.S. covert aid last October, have gradually withdrawn most of their forces to Honduran base camps to await help from a network of private sources (see box). Beginning early this month, Nicaraguan infantry backed by artillery began zeroing in on the main contra camp, known as Las Vegas. Finally an estimated 1,200 Nicaraguan troops launched an unprecedented cross-border assault reaching up to four miles into Honduras...
...Event might have come from a pocket in Gogol's Overcoat. In a provincial village of czarist Russia, a portrait painter and his unfaithful wife fearfully await an ex-convict who once threatened them with violence. Again an ambiguous reality intrudes: a character remembers being told, "I and my brother were played by one and the same actor, only in the part of my brother he was good, and in mine he was bad." In a central scene the principals remain themselves, but some of the supporting cast become painted representations...
...test Rupert's philosophy by attempting to carry off the perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party the night of the murder where he and his accomplice entertain David's parents, his fiance, a romantic rival and Rupert. The unsuspecting guilty anxiously await David's arrival dining all the while on the chest it which he is entombed...
...among the operas first performed there are Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Tannhauser, and Richard Strauss's Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier. Symbolically, the resurrected Semper Opera opened with Weber's Der Freischutz, the last work heard in the hall before it closed in 1944 to await the violent, cataclysmic end of the Third Reich...