Word: frankfurt
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Once exorbitant European cities are now less expensive than American ones. Geneva is 26% cheaper than New York City, while it now costs an executive 37% less to live in London, 30% less in Paris and 35% less in Frankfurt, West < Germany. The least expensive major city in the world is Belgrade, where the cost of living it up is 60% lower than in New York City...
...pursuit of Mengele also intensified last week when U.S., West German and Israeli officials met in Frankfurt to coordinate their efforts to find him. West Germany and Israel have long-standing warrants out for his arrest. Last February the U.S. Justice Department opened its own investigation...
...well-to-do family, Mengele studied medicine in Frankfurt, specializing in genetics. During the war, he was sent to do research at Auschwitz. His crimes there were prominently mentioned at the 1945-46 International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and, more recently, at a hearing in Jerusalem when his victims gave awful witness to his experiments, particularly on twins. They included trying to turn children's eyes blue by injecting dye, exchanging blood between twins and exposing victims to severe radiation...
...family firm, Karl Mengele & Sons, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment (the firm is still run by Mengele's family in Gunzburg). Around this time, he is said to have met Alfredo Stroessner, the grandson of a Bavarian cavalry officer, who seized power in Paraguay in 1954. When a Frankfurt court issued an order for Mengele's arrest in 1959, he fled to Paraguay to avoid extradition...
First Poland expelled two U.S. diplomats it charged had taken part in May Day demonstrations outside Cracow. Then the State Department struck back by sending four Polish diplomats packing. Last week the Polish government retaliated by cutting off the "Hamburger Specials," flights from Frankfurt that every two months brought in comforts for the U.S. embassy staff, from toothpaste to grade-A ground sirloin, as well as mail and packages from home. The shipments were allowed into Poland without the usual rigorous customs inspection...