Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former member of the National Alcohol Fuels Commission, Democratic Congressman Bill Alexander of Arkansas wanted to take advantage of the August recess to inspect Brazil's production of ethanol. It is an unwritten House rule that Congressmen can request the services of a Pentagon plane only if three or four of them travel together. So Alexander invited four of his colleagues to join him on his six-day sojourn. He sent their names to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who asked the Pentagon to secure a jet for the group. But when the Air Force C-9 took...
...which can carry as many as 42 passengers, costs taxpayers $2,310 for each flying hour. Although it was expensive, Alexander claimed the trip did produce something: primarily, a letter of intent from Brazil to exchange research and personnel with an alcohol-fuels project at the University of Arkansas. And when the Congressman returned to the U.S. via Honduras, he paid...
Nonetheless, the mystery was not entirely laid to rest. The body in Brazil was apparently Mengele's, and the papers in West Germany appeared to be authentic too. Yet questions continued to be asked about the motives of the Bosserts, who claimed to have sheltered the fugitive, and those of the Mengele family in West Germany, which apparently sent both funds and emissaries to the Nazi doctor, all the while concealing a trove of revealing photographs and documents. Because the fugitive apparently had left no recent dental records, forensic investigators admitted they could never declare with 100% certainty that...
Rolf returned to Brazil in 1979, soon after Mengele drowned off a beach at Bertioga during an outing with the Bosserts. At that point, the younger Mengele reported, he collected from the Bosserts most of his father's effects; the rest, he thought, the couple had destroyed. Last week, however, Stern announced that it had bought from the Bosserts several hundred photographs of Mengele, along with three tapes of conversations, about a dozen notebooks and assorted letters...
...feature common to both magazines, however, was their extreme caution in handling their respective scoops. Stung, perhaps, by the derision it drew after it fell for a hoax in publishing the so-called Hitler Diaries two years ago, Stern downplayed its pictures of the old man in Brazil. On its cover the magazine ran its standard topless beauty, and it held its press run to the usual 1.6 million copies...