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As sneaky as a PAC, as enduring as Claude Pepper, as annoying as an overzealous lobbyist, the unelected American cockroach is surely the most resilient resident of Capitol Hill. From the Rotunda to the farthest hearing room, congressional buildings are overrun with the scurrying pests, which seem harder to stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wildlife: Debugging the Capitol | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

DIED. Walter Rauff, 77, one of the most infamous fugitive Nazi war criminals, who designed the "Black Raven" mobile gas-chamber vans that were used to exterminate perhaps 250,000 East Europeans, most of them Jews, in 1941-42; of lung cancer; in Santiago, Chile. A colonel in the SS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

But in most places the retreat from capital punishment was not a formal, statutory change. At any one time no more than a third of the states have been without a death-penalty provision. It seems that Americans want it both ways, retaining the right to exterminate miscreants, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death Penalty: An Eye for an Eye | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

In Europe exasperation with U.S. floundering, combined with cynicism about Washington's possible complicity in Israel's wish to exterminate the P.L.O. has intensified complaints about the Administration's overall foreign policy. "Reagan has never proved himself convincing in threatening to punish Israel, said a French foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Push Comes to Shove: Israel flouts U.S. diplomacy with an attack on Beirut | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

Former Special Ambassador to the Middle East Sol Linowitz says that a hardline, get-tough attitude is not the way to move Menachem Begin [June 28]. I say it is the only way. I see him not as "the thundering prophet of the Old Testament," but as a madman determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1982 | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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