Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps this bitter sense of justice denied that inspired the widespread doubts about whether the corpse exhumed in Brazil was really that of Mengele. Granted that the fugitive and his friends were quite capable of faking the whole episode, the doubts nonetheless seemed to border on wishful thinking. Those who should most have wished Mengele dead were those who most stoutly believed him still alive. Theirs was the logic by which a prisoner who attempts suicide on the way to the gallows is carefully nursed back to health so that he can be properly executed...
...crimes trials, announced that "Dr. Mengele is dead as of October 1946." In 1970, according to another story, Mengele was buried in Asuncion under the name Flores. Three years later, Brazilian newspapers reported that the doctor had been killed by Israeli agents in a hideout along the Brazil-Paraguay border. "This is the fourth reported incidence of Mengele's death," was the verdict last week of John Loftus, 35, a Nazi hunter who used to work for the Justice Department's office of special investigations. "That's a lot of funerals...
...country for five years and to sponsor him for citizenship. On Nov. 27, 1959, he was issued nationality card No. 293348 and took up residence in Paraguay under the name Jose Mengele. For the most part, he stayed in the lush farm country around Hohenau, near the Brazilian border, where, according to Alejandro von Eckstein, one of the men who sponsored him for citizenship, he remained "very reserved and very melancholy...
...House on Garibaldi Street, his men were convinced on at least three other occasions that they had cornered Mengele: in 1961 on a farm near the sleepy Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, in 1962 on a farm near Sao Paulo, and a few months later along the Paraguayan-Brazilian border. Each time they came away emptyhanded...
Early one morning late last week a band of South African army commandos moved furtively through the streets of Gaborone, Botswana's capital, five miles from the South African border. Spreading out in small groups through the city of 60,000, they struck at nine homes and an office, ripping through doors and windows with automatic-rifle fire and hand grenades. Their targets: members of the African National Congress, the main guerrilla organization opposed to South Africa's policy of apartheid. According to the South Africans, the 35- min. attack left 13 ANC guerrillas dead. At least two other people...