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...released last week: it confirms that the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) hired Barbie as a spy in Germany after World War II and for four years hid him from the French, who were eager to prosecute him. In 1951 his Army protectors helped Barbie escape to Bolivia, where he prospered and traveled as a free man until last February, when a new Bolivian regime turned him over to France. Ryan's report concluded that the Army was guilty of an "obstruction of justice and an unlawful act." Said Ryan: "Justice delayed is justice denied. We have...
Rich started his career with Manhattan-based Philipp Brothers, then a quiet company (now Philbro-Salomon) of metals traders. He became something of a protégé of Ludwig Jesselson, the company's head. After assignments in Bolivia and Spain, he returned to New York and built the company's lucrative oil-trading department. He made a killing during the 1973 Arab oil embargo, but the company declined to pay the seven-figure commission he demanded and he left in a huff. With partner Pincus ("Pinky") Green, a fellow Wunderkind trader from Philbro, he established...
Heidemann joined Stern in 1951, just three years after it was founded. A photographer turned self-styled investigative reporter, Heidemann found the reclusive mystery writer B. Traven (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) in Mexico and former Gestapo Official Klaus Barbie in Bolivia. But he is far from a star in Hamburg, West Germany's de facto journalistic capital. Says one fellow reporter: "He is a perfectly ordinary reporter, perhaps a little gullible but otherwise bland." Heidemann has one colorful trait: a passion for Nazi memorabilia. He sold his house in Hamburg a decade ago to buy a yacht...
...cocaine trail to the U.S. begins 2,500 miles southwest of Florida, on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains. The cash-crop cultivation of coca is divided primarily between Bolivia (86,000 acres) and Peru (123,000 acres). The DEA, which has five agents in each country, estimates that 23,000 Bolivian peasant families depend on coca for their livelihoods, and that the crop generates nearly $1 billion a year for Peru, where the entire national budget is just over $5 billion. But the business is controlled by Colombians. All but a small fraction of cocaine headed...
...have lashed California, much of the rest of the U.S. has basked in an exceptionally mild winter. In Australia, usually drenched by rain during the Southern Hemisphere's autumn, there has been a drought that has been called the worst in 200 years. In the eastern Pacific, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador have been staggered by record rains, floods and landslides that have cost hundreds of lives and millions of dollars...