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Though Hoffa terms himself a political prisoner, and it is evident that he shares many of the left's criticisms of Gestapo-like tactics, he is unwilling to acknowledge that their use in this country can be politically motivated. He seems to believe all problems are solvable by traditional liberal means, that "social changes come about only by the better education of people and by the way which they learn to live within the education they secure...

Author: By Walter N. Rothschild iii, | Title: Jimmy Hoffa | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Born in France, Ricord was a pimp, dope peddler and Gestapo collaborator before he emigrated to Argentina and became naturalized. Then he moved to neighboring Paraguay and entered a syndicate that piped more than five tons of heroin into the U.S. Although he had never set foot in the U.S., he was convicted last year in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. For a year and a half he had fought the U.S. extradition demand. But impoverished Paraguay, threatened with the loss of U.S. aid (currently $9,000,000), finally gave him up. The State Department insists there was nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Extradition: Tricks And Power Plays | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...Young Communist League; four years later he took his first trip to Moscow to attend the Communist Youth International School. In 1933, after Hitler outlawed Germany's Communist Party, he became an underground organizer, under the name Herbert Jung. In 1935 he was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to ten years in prison; he spent much of it in solitary confinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISM: The Rise of the Other Germany | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...threats and demonstrations, Koenigs joined in forming a faculty group called the Emergency Association for a Free University, known as NOFU. Last spring the Communist Students League staged a public "trial" of the NOFU professors and condemned them as Denunzianten, the term that used to be applied to Gestapo informers. Koenigs went to court and obtained a judicial order banning the use of the epithet on student posters and leaflets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Professor Protests | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...depths he had never fathomed before. Throughout his career, Nixon's most laudable quality was his unwavering loyalty to his political (and non-political) cronies. But as the recent White House shake-up has shown, even this unfailing loyalty is no longer sacrosanct. When Nixon's White House gestapo could no longer cover up for itself, der fuehrer exterminated the vermin...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: The Same Old Dick | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

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