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KLAUS BARBIE almost got away with genocide. With the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Barbie, the notorious Gestapo chief of Lyon in occupied France, mysteriously slipped through an international dragnet and found asylum in South America, leaving behind the bodies of thousands of his victims. For thirty-two years he evaded Nazi hunters and scoffed at extradition attempts and death sentences passed in absentia by the French courts of justice. Barbie had played the war crime game...
DIED. Jack Webb, 62, actor and alter ego of steely, deadpan Sergeant Joe Friday ("Just the facts, ma'am") on Dragnet; of heart disease; in West Hollywood, Calif. A self-styled "demon at work" who directed and produced most of the episodes both on radio (1949-56) and during two TV runs (1951-59, 1967-70), Webb continued to produce movies (The D.I.) and TV series (Adam-12, Emergency...
Your article "Dragnet for Illegal Workers" [May 10] presents a biased view of the U.S. immigration laws and their enforcement. What should the INS investigators and Border Patrol agents be doing if not upholding the laws? That is their job. Paul L. Adams Arlington...
...moon!' " But the fraternal bogeyman was also a small festival of phobias. "My biggest fear was a clown doll," he says. "Also the tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under the bed or in the closet. Also Dragnet on TV. Also a crack in the bedroom wall-I thought ghosts might come from it." For Spielberg, film making has been a profitable form of psychotherapy: those boyhood fears form the spine of the Poltergeist plot...
...then triggered prematurely when a mercenary's gun was discovered. Since the ensuing airport Shootout, at least 500 visiting tourists have been confined to the islands' luxury hotels. Five mercenaries have been arrested, leaving perhaps three others dead or hiding in the hills from the continuing security dragnet...