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...next ten years were spent in exile in England. At a Sussex boarding school he was taunted for his social lapses and called a liar by classmates who refused to believe his tales of Africa and the Middle East. All through Eton and Oxford, Thesiger dreamed of returning to the scenes of his childhood. A break came in 1930 when Emperor Haile Selassie invited him to attend his coronation in Addis Ababa. After ten days of festivities, the impatient guest slipped off on his first caravan. It took him through the unadministered territory of the Danakil, "Slender figures in short...
...went well until Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh told the militants two weeks ago that he planned to honor their request to take charge of the hostages "with the approval of the Imam [Khomeini] and the Revolutionary Council." The militants immediately called him a liar. Next day the Revolutionary Council compounded the error by announcing that...
Eichmann's plea for a reprieve f 4"^ he Gods I worshiped demanded the I dance of death. I had no choice, and whoever claims otherwise is a liar." So wrote Adolf Eichmann, after his four-month 1961 trial in Israel, as he attempted to justify his role in the wartime deaths of millions of Jews. The onetime SS officer who was chiefly responsible for carrying out the Final Solution of the Third Reich's "Jewish problem" even insisted that he was not antiSemitic. Eichmann had made that claim somewhat obliquely in court and more directly...
Angelo Buono goes to court in late March, and his attorney plans to use the taped reports to undermine Bianchi's testimony. His contention: the tapes show that Bianchi is hopelessly disturbed or a liar, either of which strains his credibility. The prosecution thinks it can win a conviction without using the tapes. But the issue of the value of psychiatric testimony in a court of law will not be settled so soon. Admits Lunde: "You get people who say you should keep psychiatrists out of courtrooms." But, he says, "the main reason we're there is that...
...Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Father Coughlin's first broadcasts were religious sermons from his Shrine of the Little Flower Church outside Detroit, but soon he began voicing the discontent of the Depression by berating bankers. Heard in 30 million homes, Coughlin called F.D.R. "the great liar and betrayer" and tried to fuel a third-party movement. He preached against Jews and Communists, among others, and the Catholic Church finally silenced all broadcasts and writings in 1942. Despite his reputation as a demagogue, Coughlin remained a parish priest who served quietly until his retirement...