Word: gestapo
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...four, young Loret was placed in an orphanage; eventually he was adopted by a well-to-do French family. Eighteen years later, when Hitler overran France in 1940, he ordered the Gestapo to find mother and son, who had independently made their ways to Paris...
Charlotte by then had become an alcoholic, and Hitler ordered her placed in a French sanitarium. The son was taken to Gestapo headquarters at Paris' Hotel Lutetia, where he was questioned extensively as to what he knew of his father...
Scientology Spokesman Vaughn Young denounced the raids as the work of "little Hitlers" and a "Gestapo police state." Scientology lawyers went to court to demand the return of the seized material and a gag order forbidding the authorities to reveal what they had found. Although the matter quickly bogged down in legal technicalities, most observers predicted eventual court approval for continuation of the probe...
...call it. At the top of the heap is the "prez," who, if he wants to stay there, had better respond to every threat and challenge. The "veep" supervises internal affairs, especially dues and initiation rituals; the "war counselor" plans the "ripoffs" and "gang-hits" and commands the "gestapo" squads, which consist of the enforcers; the "armorer" keeps the weapons functioning in a safe place such as an abandoned building or a girl friend's apartment. Even automatic and semiautomatic firearms-like M-16s and M-15s-can be bought or stolen. Also available for bigger bashes are hand...
...near-Valhalla is the forthcoming Bogart spoof, Cheap Detective, set in 1940s San Francisco. Written by Simon, it stars Falk along with Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing and Madeline Kahn. A natty Falk makes time with all six ladies while stumbling up against the Gestapo on a hunt for precious gems that look like birds' eggs-a kind of Maltese omelet...