Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close the Barbie case in 1971, Beate Klarsfeld launched an international protest campaign that eventually turned up information on the missing SS man's whereabouts in Latin America. Largely on the basis of new evidence from the Klarsfelds, Lyon Magistrate Christian Riss decided to reopen the Barbie dossier in February 1982. This was necessary because his 1947 and 1954 convictions had lapsed as a result of France's 20-year statute of limitations on war crimes. Last November, Riss officially indicted the one time Gestapo captain for "crimes against humanity," giving the Mitterrand government legal ground for going...
More details are bound to come to light when the trial begins next year. Because of the statute of limitations much of the evidence presented previously will be inadmissible this time in court. But prosecutors have compiled a full dossier for his new trial. He will probably be charged with rounding up and shooting railway employees in Oullins, outside of Lyon, and organizing a police raid in which 86 Jews were arrested. The most poignant case against him centers on the deportation of 41 Jewish orphans, aged 3 to 13, from the village of Izieux to the Auschwitz death camp...
...governmental agencies at home and abroad. At its height, the espionage system, called "Operation Snow White" by Hubbard, included up to 5,000 covert agents who were placed in government offices, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as in private organizations critical of Scientology. Hubbard even assembled a dossier on President Richard Nixon and individuals ranging from U.S. Senators to members of the Rockefeller family...
Those Those who who like like artists artists with with dramatic dramatic lives (hot, heavy, conflict-ridden ear-cutters or their SoHo clones) will be dis appointed by Milton Avery's. No major American artist has a thinner dossier. A mild, unassuming man who disliked publicity and made at best a bare living from his work, he joined no groups, signed no manifestos, was linked to no political causes, clobbered no body in the Cedar Bar and said very little about himself; when asked for his theories about art, his usual reply was "Why talk when you can paint...
...show would open with the dossier of this week's criminal. One Martin I King Jr. His official FBI classification through most of the sixties was Section A of the "reserve idea," a list of people "in a position to influence others against national interests or...likely to furnish financial or other material aid to subversive elements...