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During their investigation, the Klarsfelds also concluded that Barbie might have had links to U.S. Intelligence in the years after the war. Because the Americans were using the Gestapo man to glean information on operations in Soviet-controlled areas, they allegedly refused to turn him over to French security. Erhard Dabringhaus, a language professor at Detroit's Wayne State University, worked for Army counterintelligence in 1948, and claims that he was ordered to find Barbie a safe house in Germany and pay him $1,700 a month, a sum that went a long way in postwar Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Exorcising Old Ghosts | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

Brown staff members defended their polling methods, saying that they could glean productive information from as few as five student respondents. The group sharply criticized Harvard for having first backed away from the project but said that the information Fox submitted would be used . The book is expected out this fall...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

Brown staff members defended their polling methods, saying that they could glean productive information from as few as five student respondents. The group sharply criticized Harvard for having first backed away from the project but said that the information Fox submitted would be used The book is expected out this fall...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...make sense. Not that you necessarily agree with them, but at least you learn to respect them. For while they will surely be spouting Marxist slogans until the day they die. Gill and King don't take it all that seriously. And that is something you could never really glean from an album like Songs of the Free, which to the casual listener can seem almost excruciatingly pedantic. These guys actually have a sense of humor, which is a lot more than you can say about such dogged revolutionaries as the Clash. When King screams. "The girls they love...

Author: By Micheal J. Abranosrit, | Title: Gang Politics | 8/3/1982 | See Source »

...script contains--Fran and Jo-Jo's single explosive moment and, later, her meeting with her aunt, which sparks a long talk over old times. But rather than fleshing out the story, the additions sit uneasily and discontinuities are all too evident. What pleasure, nostalgic or dramatic, can we glean from Fran and Aunt Gert's ecstatic recapitulation of childhood rituals we never saw--when, indeed, this is Gert's first appearance on stage? What use that Gert, played by Beverley May, is as plump and wonderful and all-forgiving as society's collective grandmother, her perfect Brooklyn accent wrapping...

Author: By Ann E.schwirtz, | Title: Meeting Nostalgia Halfway | 2/6/1982 | See Source »

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