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...never bore what could almost be thought of as the liability of physical beauty; undistracted men simply responded to her competence. Her success may have come about in large measure because people virtually ignored the fact that she was a woman...she was virtually accepted as a man, she became Prime Minister of Israel as though she were...
...them. His special interest, however, was in twins and dwarfs. When Mengele found seven dwarfs among her Hungarian theater family, Elizabeth Moskovitch recalled from a wheelchair last week, he exclaimed delightedly, "Now I have 20 years' worth of material to study." The final witness was Ruth Eliaz. After she bore a child, she reported, Mengele strapped her breasts with tape and settled down to see how long it took an unfed infant to die. When the emaciated child was reduced to a whimper, Eliaz was given a syringe and some morphine by a female Jewish doctor. Then, she recalled, choking...
...stepfather to ten of his own. He was genial, articulate, gregarious, a spokesman for Nelson Rockefeller, intimate of politicians and journalists across the country. But at home he often seemed a figure invested with glamour, forbearance and remoteness. There, "injury and anger gusted inarticulately through the house. The spirit bore a bruise, a grievance: the bruise was mysterious . . . We could not explain it, we could not assuage...
...Palestinians, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, was carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. In finding that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance" when he ordered the militiamen into the camps, the Kahan commission concluded that he bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened. "It is impossible to justify the Minister of Defense's disregard of the danger of a massacre," the commission stated...
...report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan. The killings, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Phalangist militiamen. The Kahan commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and thus bore "indirect responsibility" for what happened; Sharon resigned his Defense post two days after the findings were released...