Word: eichmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial-ex-El Al Security Man Mordechai Rahamim, who jumped from the plane and shot one of the raiders. While free on $23,000 bail, he has been serving as Premier Golda Meir's personal bodyguard. Advised by a battery of lawyers that includes one of the Eichmann prosecutors, he denied charges of manslaughter "under extenuating circumstances," maintaining that he had fired in self-defense. Witnesses claim, however, that the Arab had already been disarmed...
FitzGibbon accepts as sound the plebiscites that gave Hitler up to 99% Ja. But if all Germans were guilty, he seems to wonder, why should countless individuals be singled out for punishment? If Eichmann, why not Everyman...
...satisfied that Mayor Daley has cleared himself of the charge of being responsible for the police brutality that took place in Chicago during the Democratic Convention." Fumed a columnist in the Irish Times: "Waterford might just as well consider it a cause for celebration if it discovered that Adolf Eichmann's and Ian Paisley's grandmothers were Waterford women...
...intimidate the Israeli government, and the Arab commando attacks on El Al's jets have precisely the same aim. Israel, a master of the extralegal reprisal (the Beirut airport raid), has also excelled in long-range kidnaping, as in the classic case of Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann, whom Israeli agents spirited out of Argentina in 1960. Former Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe still sits in an Algerian jail, caught in a mid-air kidnaping in 1967. Such is the climate of the times that fifteen planes have been hijacked to Cuba so far this year. On a larger scale...
...FROM DAMNATION. Certain human deeds, says Berger, in the common experience of mankind seem "not only evil, but monstrously evil." The archetypal example is the Nazi mass execution of the Jews. Man is "constrained to condemn, and condemn absolutely," the villainy of an Eichmann, and that condemnation derives from a belief that when a person commits such crimes, "he separates himself in a final way from a moral order that transcends the human community, and thus invokes a retribution that is more than human...