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...group had collected information on 36,800 people. Though most of those cataloged are known to be dead, others are not. Among the more famous listed criminals thought to be still alive are Alois Brunner, a deputy to Adolf Eichmann who is ! in Syria, and Dr. Hans Wilhelm Konig, an aide to Josef Mengele believed to be in Sweden...
...more Germans and many of the Americans, led by Philadelphia's Polish American John Krol, partly because of Wojtyla's familiarity with their nations and partly because of his doctrinal conservatism and antiCommunism. The original impetus came from a more liberal nucleus of Europeans rallied by Austria's Franz Konig, who stressed Wojtyla's commitment to the Second Vatican Council's reforms...
...heart attack, recalls that John Paul's health was never mentioned in the conclave. One historian wondered if the Cardinals might not be submerged in guilt over the affliction of the man they put in office. Did the pressures of the job exact a sudden toll, as Cardinals Konig and Suenens suggested in the first shock of the news...
Understandably, the experience has in stilled in Konig a morbid determinism that makes the Goncourt brothers look like Harpo and Chico Marx: "Gone now are February and March, season of drowned men, when ice on the frozen rivers melts, yielding up the winter's harvest of junkies, itinerants and prostitutes. Soon to come are July and August - the jackknife months. Heat and homicide. Bullet holes, knife wounds, fatal garrotings, a grisly procession vomited out of the steamy ghettos of the inner city...
...prevent Konig's spirits from soaring unexpectedly, Lieberman saddles him with other problems: two incipient scandals in his own department and a particularly troublesome batch of mismatched body parts dredged up from the East River. As if all this were not enough, Konig's daughter has fallen into the hands of some hoodlum revolutionaries. They make Konig listen in on the phone while they torture...