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South African Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, 47, seemed the very model of a modern military man. Tall, balding and highly intelligent, with an intense, abrasive manner, the Berlin-born naval officer moved in high South African defense circles and was personally acquainted with Premier P.W. Botha. Gerhardt's home at the Simonstown Naval Base near Cape Town was the envy of his neighbors; it was expensively decorated with Persian rugs and works of art. When visitors asked how he managed to live like an admiral on a commodore's income, Gerhardt had a ready reply: he had received...
...Gerhardt may have first been recruited by the KGB while receiving advanced naval training in Britain two decades ago. He is alleged to have been paid $250,000 for his information. Because the Simonstown base is located on one of the world's busiest maritime routes, around the Cape of Good Hope, it serves as a vital Western surveillance post. Gerhardt thus had access to secrets of international strategic importance. At the very least, as commodore of a dock that refitted and refurbished most of South Africa's fleet, he was in a position to provide Moscow with...
Many other students cited the Vietnam war in their comments. "Vietnam horrifies people," Craig Gerhardt '79 said yesterday. "Most people are only willing to fight to defend American freedom," he added...
Agricrime has become so bad in the state of California that the annual loss in crops and machinery is estimated at $30 million. Avocados and artichokes are among the hottest of the hot crops. Observes Gerhardt Clasen, an avocado grower in the town of Fallbrook: "Thieves can strip a tree in half an hour and get $15 for their work." Even more amazing, according to Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says that the St. Clair Stonewall--trying to delay a Supreme Court ruling on the tapes, refusing to cooperate with federal Judge Gerhardt A. Gesell in the "plumbers" trial, hoping to limit the scope of the House impeachment inquiry--gives the impression that Nixon has something to hide...