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...Louis Bruguiere, France's renowned judge of terrorism cases, charged Carlos in a 1982 Paris bombing that killed a pregnant woman and injured 63 other people -- one of several cases he may stand trial for. Carlos has hired the flamboyant French lawyer Jacques Verges, who defended the late Lyons Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie. His other attorney, Mourad Oussedik, today began a p.r. campaign with a claim that his client had been illegally "taken against his will, tied up and drugged" by French counterterrorism agents in Sudan, instead of simply turned over. Not likely, says TIME senior correspondent William Rademaekers...
...late 1930s, he went to Germany and started recording the work of church leaders, preachers and theologians working against the Nazi party. He was detained by the Gestapo, who also briefly took away his passport, for a time...
...chaos and violence expertly rendered by Serrault are reiterated, throughout the film, by haunting music and startling images. Shots fire in a posh Paris arcade. A man plays a saw with a violin bow. Naked men chase women in Gestapo uniforms. Focusing relentlessly on objects of horror, the camera captures the greenish grey tone of the film and uncovers the ghoulishness of even the most serene images. After a Jew is beaten and taken from his home, the picture-perfect image of the house of the Jew and the house of his neighbor standing identical, side by side, underlines...
Prosecutors may have a better chance of convicting Paul Touvier, now 78, a Nazi collaborator during the German Occupation of France who was recently indicted for "crimes against humanity" in connection with the murder of seven Jewish hostages taken by the Gestapo in Lyons in 1944. French authorities are expected to decide in the next six months whether to try Touvier. "After 20 years of stalling in the courts," said Serge Klarsfeld, the renowned Nazi hunter, "Touvier will have to answer for his crimes in a criminal court." Antanas Gecas, 77, a onetime Lithuanian auxiliary-police battalion officer now living...
Films like Blade Runner handle atmospherics of this kind easily. It takes a gifted sleight-of-mind artist to work such phantasmagorical effects in a novel without fuddling or exasperating the reader. Erickson manages the trick expertly. But why the priestly Gestapo of "Church Central" in this alternate America? Because Jefferson was an anticlerical deist for whom a theocratic nation would have been a shaming defeat? Maybe, but trying to decode word-for- word meaning here won't illuminate much. Aeonopolis, the author tells us, is almost impossible to leave: thus a waking nightmare of reason paralyzed, of civility blood...