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Bukovsky plans to spend a few weeks in England with British Actor David Markham, who has campaigned indefatigably for the Russian's freedom for the past six years. After that he hopes to go to Holland to study biology at the University of Leyden. "Leyden had very old ties with Russia," Bukovsky ex plained. "Peter the Great sent Russians to study there. The university mailed postcards to me in prison for my birthday and, remarkably enough, this was the only correspondence from abroad that ever got through...
...East Galicia (then in Poland, now part of the U.S.S.R.'s Ukraine), where he became a prosperous landowner and businessman. He was mild-mannered and quiet, but developed a deep grudge against a prominent neighboring Jewish family over a business dispute. Menten went home to Holland in 1939, when Russia invaded eastern Poland, and returned in 1941 after the Nazi counter-occupation-this time as a member of the SS. In Galicia, according to witnesses, he helped shoot as many members of the offending family as he could find, then turned on other Jews in the area...
...Nazi occupiers thought highly of Menten, and made him, among other things, a custodian of Jewish antique dealerships. On his trip back to Holland in 1943, he traveled in a private train carrying four carloads of his personal art works. This remarkable shipment brought him to the notice of Dutch Resistance fighters, and after the war Menten was tried as a Nazi collaborator...
Dodging Amsterdam's closely watched Schiphol Airport, couriers detour to Zurich, Frankfurt, Rome and other cities and then carry the dope to Holland overland. Penny-wise smugglers have even used Aeroflot's discount flights across Asia, though Soviet police crackdowns in Moscow are making that route more dangerous. Tactics change daily. "You know if we see a Chinese get off a flight from Bangkok, we're going to nail him," says one Paris-based U.S. narc. To avoid that, the triads are recruiting middle-class Caucasians as "mules" for $1,000 a trip plus plane fare...
...world business slowdown poses an exquisite dilemma. Though Carter is expected to pursue a far more stimulative policy than President Ford, he will have to move gingerly lest he fire up inflation, which is now running at an annual rate of 5.5%. That pace is low compared with Holland's 8% or Britain's 14%, but it is much too high by historical standards in the U.S. Yet if the Carter Administration fails to take the lead in reviving the industrial world's laggard economy, the U.S. cannot hope to achieve the robust recovery the President-elect...