Word: lieberman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Ezra Lieberman, who has devoted his life to hunting down war criminals, pays small heed to news of this meeting. But when his informant, a young Jewish activist, is killed, he senses the gathering of some fresh evil on the part of his old enemies and begins investigating the case, an enterprise that takes him to many odd corners of the world and leads him-several plodding steps behind the audience-to the remarkable conclusion that somehow Mengele has succeeded where the rest of science has so far failed: he has cloned a man. And not just...
...hrer, and now it is necessary, if you are to give the final nasty twist to their personalities, to replicate the great shaping experience of Hitler's adolescence-the death of the domineering father at age 65. A fairish number of "parents" are disposed of before Lieberman finally catches up with and confronts the wicked Mengele in a Pennsylvania farmhouse...
...Integrity himself, playing Mengele. He sports a nasty little mustache and a stiff posture, and seems to be enjoying his change of face and pace. But no more than Laurence Olivier, no less, relishes playing the old Jew. Wise and crusty, frail of frame but stout of heart, Lieberman is one of those movie character roles that the great actor visibly enjoys doing and that one cannot help enjoying along with...
...ever heard." He roundly discounted Marston's skills as an investigator of political corruption in Pennsylvania and claimed that Marston had "practically destroyed the morale of [his] office." Indeed, said Bell, Marston has never tried a case. The real "moving force" in the probes was Alan Lieberman, a Marston subordinate and career Government lawyer who is still in charge of them. Bell described Marston as good at "calling press conferences" and remembered that when the U.S. Attorney's office was about to launch an investigation of police brutality in Philadelphia, he explicitly ordered Marston not to call...
...hunted official corruption in both parties. Despite Marston's protests that the inquiry into Philadelphia-area wrongdoing may be sabotaged by his ouster, the whole brouhaha almost certainly guarantees forceful pursuit of the probe to its end. That assignment will be carried out by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Lieberman, who did most of Marston's actual courtroom work, and hard-driving FBI Agent Neil Welch, who is rated the most effective bureau field commander in the country...