Word: hope
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...book-lined office in Vienna, Wiesenthal, who is ailing with a heart condition, despairs of ever bringing his old quarry to justice. Two years ago, his Jewish Documentation Center suffered a severe setback; most of its funds were deposited in a Vienna bank that failed. His only real hope for bringing Mengele to justice would be Israeli intelligence, but the Israelis find the operation too risky. They have sent several teams to Paraguay to study a possible Mengele snatch. After losing at least one agent on a reconnaissance mission, they concluded that the potential losses involved in taking Mengele from...
...image in Austria has suffered because of a row with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky over former Nazis in Austrian politics. "Two old Jews fight, and the SS men laugh," says Wiesenthal sadly. He realizes that he may have to be content with what he calls "the biological solu-tion"-the hope that Mengele, who has circulatory ailments, will die soon. But that would not satisfy his outrage that a murderer has gone unpunished. And there is no guarantee that the hunter may not go before the hunted...
...week that there is nothing wrong in a journalist's talking to an intelligence source. "There isn't a foreign correspondent worth his salt who hasn't frequently had lunch with someone from the CIA," said Times London Bureau Chief R.W. ("Johnny") Apple. "Of course, you hope to get more than you give." Bernstein cautions that his CIA sources -at least 35 present and former officials-may be exaggerating the extent of agency penetration into the news business: "A CIA official might think he had exercised control over a journalist; the journalist might think he had simply...
Students may not agree with Fox that everyone who gets a medical excuse is really sick. Last spring, a new phrase entered undergraduate vocabulary: "punting," or postponing an exam until the make-up date, in the hope they will do better if they take it at a time when they don't have to worry about other courses...
Today he returns to the line-up, but his presence is not the main story. Tim Davenport's absence claims that honor, and if you believe in deja vu, just hope the Minutemen aren't on next year's Crimson schedule...