Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sedlmeier, a onetime legal clerk for the Mengele firm. Sedlmeier was widely reported to have been a messenger between Mengele and his family when the fugitive was living in Asuncion, Paraguay. Inside a closet in the home, the investigators found seven or eight letters apparently mailed by Mengele from Brazil between 1972 and 1978. They also discovered two more recent letters from Wolfram and Lieselotte Bossert, an Austrian couple who had moved to Brazil in 1952. These letters implied that Mengele was dead...
They had, they said, first been introduced to Mengele in 1970 through an Austrian engineer, Wolfgang Gerhard. Five years later, Gerhard left Brazil, giving Mengele his Brazilian identity card. Mengele put his own photographs on the document and assumed Gerhard's identity. The real Gerhard died in 1978, according to West German legal authorities...
...Bosserts' story. Brazilian police did indeed record a drowning at Bertioga on the day in question, and a few months later the Paraguayan government, which had granted Mengele citizenship in 1959, inexplicably canceled it. Also, the exhumed body did not have its arms crossed, as is usual in Brazil, but was placed with the arms extended by the side. In the letters found in Gunzburg, Mengele had stipulated that he be buried in such a position. And last month an elderly farmer in eastern Paraguay told a film crew from the CBS program Sixty Minutes that he had been told...
...revised International Monetary Fund gave preferential credit to developing nations attempting to correct their financial imbalances, such as Mexico and Brazil...
...Brazil and Argentina are thought to be much further away from bomb-making capacity, but both countries show serious intentions of retaining at least the option for weapons development, even under their recently restored civilian governments. Both also seemingly intend to involve themselves as much as possible in peaceful nuclear commerce, thus extending an expanding web of nuclear relationships...