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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went virtually every day last week. As a team of Brazilian forensic experts examined the Embu bones at Sao Paulo's Instituto Medico Legal to determine whether they were Mengele's or not, Tuma -- and others -- provided bits and pieces of fresh evidence in what could be the final act of a dramatic and drawn-out manhunt, a bitter trail of false identities, narrow escapes and never-ending questions. For more than a quarter-century, Nazi hunters from Israel and other countries had crisscrossed Europe and much of South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...forensic examination got under way last week, the medical investigators worked in strict secrecy. Outside the third-floor multiroom lab at the Instituto Medico Legal, armed military policemen stood guard around the clock. Within days, the original five-man team of examiners had grown to seven; early on, they discovered signs of an injury in the pelvic area that might correspond to a broken hip Mengele reportedly suffered in a wartime accident (though Rolf Mengele said he knew of no such injury). After preliminary tests on the 208 bones before him, Coordinator Wilmes Roberto Teixeira reported that he had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox Jr. and Professor of Education Noel F. McGinn, are two of the three directors of the Nuevo Instituto of Centro Americas, located in Estali, a small city near Nicaragua's border with Honduras...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Professors Set Up Nicaraguan School | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

While similar language and culture programs operate in Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, Treumann said that those schools are "designed for the purpose of making a profit," and don't immerse students in local life as fully as will the Nuevo Instituto...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Professors Set Up Nicaraguan School | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

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