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...mastermind of no-good is Largo (Klaus laria Brandauer), a cheerful middle-aged multimillionaire with a beautiful top agent named atima Blush (Barbara Carrera). He gives the world--mainly Bermuda, Cannes, and North Africa--a week to pay up. Enter the rehabilitated bond, at the insistence of the British foreign minister--who has a higher opinion of 007 than the agent's newfangled current boss...
...confession can turn false. It can serve as convenient camouflage for bitter accusation. But Lewis is too pessimistic. There are authentic expressions of national contrition. And they are as moving as they are rare. This year has seen several remarkable examples: the American apology to France for having shielded Klaus Barbie; the U.S. congressional commission's acknowledgment of guilt for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II; the finding of the Israeli commission on the killings at Sabra and Shatila that, though others had committed the crime, Israel bore a national responsibility for not having prevented them...
...later (1946-58) commanded Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, which is responsible for security of the royal family; in London. As England's premier sleuth in the 1940s, Burt collared Traitors William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") and John Amery and Atomic Spies Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs. Quiet and affable, Burt had an uncanny knack for extracting incriminating information from suspects. In his memoirs, he wrote of the typical quarry: "In many cases, he is only too eager to talk. Nine times out of ten a man is the hero of his own stories...
When the first accusations were made last winter that the U.S. Government had employed and protected Lyon Gestapo Commander Klaus Barbie, Allan A. Ryan Jr. began checking into Army records. As head of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which tracks down Nazi war criminals, Ryan was accustomed to false leads and painstaking detective work. This time, however, the chief U.S. Nazi hunter quickly recognized the shameful secret buried in the sheaf of memos. "After a few minutes with those files," he recalls, "it was obvious the charges were serious...
...frame-up, although some of the evidence was tainted. Radosh and Milton also conclude that the penalty was inappropriate, in part because the Rosenbergs did not, as the prosecution maintained, give the vital secret of the bomb to the Soviet Union. In all likelihood, that was done by Physicist Klaus Fuchs, and he was sentenced to only 14 years. The authors answer many questions and satisfy much curiosity, but theirs is not a book that one can finish and say "Rest in peace." -By R.Z. Sheppard...