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...Died. Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer whose Dutch detective character Piet Van der Valk and French sleuth Henri Castang propelled dozens of popular novels; in eastern France. Freeling wrote nearly 40 books and was credited with elevating the crime genre by creating probing examinations of complex personalities...
...acts on behalf of Jewish Holocaust survivors and the heirs of victims; and some descendants of the Wertheim family led by Barbara Principe, who allege in U.S. federal court that they were swindled out of their inheritance in the 1950s. More than 2 million claims for property restitution in eastern Germany were filed after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and hundreds of cases are still pending. But the Wertheim case is highly unusual for two reasons: it has become the subject of intense diplomatic exchanges between Germany and the U.S., and it has highlighted some peculiar German government business...
...Jewish Claims Conference wins, as it usually gives a percentage of any settlement to surviving relatives. This sort of legal morass was exactly what the Germans hoped to avoid after reunification. The government deliberately decoupled unresolved ownership questions from use of the property itself, which enabled large swaths of eastern Germany to be developed even as title to the real estate remained contested. And in a move to protect German companies from U.S. lawsuits relating to the Nazi era, the government in 2000 made a deal with Washington that involved setting up a €5 billion fund to pay outstanding...
...Wavering Peace DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO New doubts were cast on the peace process when rebel ministers in the new power-sharing administration refused to swear an oath of loyalty to President Joseph Kabila at a ceremony in Kinshasa, and fresh fighting broke out in the eastern Ituri region. Earlier, the leaders of two main rebel groups were sworn in as Vice Presidents, raising hopes that the transitional government, set up under a peace deal agreed in April, might bring a permanent end to the five-year civil war. However, on Friday the rebels said they would recognize Kabila only...
...building will replace the storefront of the Harvard Provision Company and Skewers, a Middle Eastern restaurant, which both closed this spring. According to Sidney Verba ’53, director of Harvard University Library, the new building will be used by the Office of Information Systems, which runs the online Hollis library catalogue, and the Weissman Preservation Center, which helps repair and maintain the holdings of the university libraries...