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...their 80s, Wiesenthal has lots of scores that he wants to settle. He is angry not only at all the ex-Nazis and all the authorities who have sheltered them in Germany, Austria, Latin America and the Middle East but also at the U.S. for recruiting killers like Klaus Barbie for cold war intelligence, and at the Soviets for all their political crimes (it was at their hands that Wiesenthal's father died...
...balding, bespectacled German-born physicist named Klaus Fuchs walked into London's War Office and confessed to being a spy. For seven years, from 1942 to 1949, Fuchs had systematically funneled high-level secrets about U.S. and British nuclear-weapons research to the U.S.S.R., including plans for the yet unfinished hydrogen bomb...
...ditched for Volkswagens even as the drivers dream of Mercedes-Benz, Audis, BMWs and Porsches. And while Trabants account for less than 0.5% of the passenger cars in the Federal Republic, they have caused a stir. "Almost every day we get letters of complaint," says Bonn Environment Minister Klaus Topfer. "The Trabant is a nuisance...
Civic Forum also proposed its current spokesperson, Jiri Dienstbier, as foreign minister and economist Vaclav Klaus, also a Civic Forum member, as finance minister...
...Vaclav Klaus, a spokeman for the opposition group Civic Forum, called off any rallies today, when the opposition meets the government for more negotiations. Communist Premier Ladislav Adamec held an unprecedented meeting last Sunday with opposition leaders to try to contain the peaceful revolt...