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...from Beirut, where it had landed after having been hijacked out of Athens. Hours later, it landed in Algiers, then took off again and returned late that night to Beirut, the tension rising, the crew bone-weary. And minutes after landing, the senseless slaying of a hostage, and a harsh voice over the plane's radio: "You see? You now believe it. There will be another in five minutes," and the nightmare rolled...
...ugly fate to be the most hated man in the world. To be wanted for prosecution by the governments of the U.S., Israel and West Germany. To be a hunted fugitive for 40 years. To have a price on one's head of $3.4 million. That was the harsh destiny of Josef Mengele, the camp doctor at Auschwitz. And then to be found dead, as Mengele was reported found on June 6, dead and buried in a small hillside cemetery in Brazil. To be dug up, bone by moldering bone, and carted away for scientific examination. And argued about...
...investment there, halt computer sales to the government and end the importation of Krugerrands unless South Africa begins to take explicit measures to reform its apartheid system. The day before, the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee had voted 16 to 1 to approve a similar, though less harsh, proposal...
...forward with a particular provision or another, it is the end of the Western world as we know it." In the political interest of producing a plan with a fighting chance of becoming law, the Administration introduced complicated softenings of provisions that originally were straightforward and harsh...
...Harsh penalties may be the most effective deterrent to executive-suite misdeeds. Says U.S. Attorney Giuliani: "Corporate crime is a crime of greed and fear. The best way to combat it is to raise the fear." Experts hope that the sentence given Thayer and the long prison term that Butcher is expected to receive will send a message to would-be business criminals about the consequences of getting caught...