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Author Levin ranges skillfully through Berlin ministries, where Nazi bureaucrats enthusiastically pursued their policy of Endlosung ("final solution") for the Jews, to Warsaw's Umschlagplatz, a transfer point to Treblinka, where a child's tongue was cut out "with a pocket knife for making a face at a guard." One chilling passage portrays Eichmann himself, standing over a killing pit near Minsk and watching a pleading Jewish mother hold up her baby just before the bullets strike. "I was so close that later I found bits of brains splattered on my long leather coat," Eichmann said afterward...
...another man drove Watkins to a secluded road near Pascagoula, where they were met by three Klansmen in full hooded regalia. The gang urged Watkins to perjure himself and say that Bowers had been with him at the time of the bombing. When Watkins refused, Lawyer Buckley pulled a knife. Watkins was dragged from the car and knocked around. One of the Klansmen stuck a pistol in his face. "There's one bullet in this gun," he said. "I'm gonna keep pulling the trigger until you say what we want you to or until I kill...
...SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurd love waltz between a boy and girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...
...advances. After he tried but was unable to have intercourse, she jumped out of the car and began screaming. Gary then began slashing her and, according to his alleged confession, she smashed her head on some rocks. Police also pointed to bits of supporting circumstantial evidence. A folding linoleum knife was found near the body, and Gary had bought such a knife in a local store. Also, his version of what she screamed ("I'm going to die! I'm going to die!") coincided exactly with what residents heard...
...attorney merely objected to prosecution allegations and procedures. The two judges took just 20 minutes to convict Gary. But even some of those who thought him guilty felt that flaws in the case had not been adequately brought out. They noted that Gary's parents produced an identical knife and said it was the one he had bought. As for the screams, the police had already interviewed some witnesses by the time they questioned Gary, and it therefore could have been the police who provided Gary's version of the screams...