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...South America after the war. Protected and organized by a loosely knit network known as Kameradenwerk (Comrades' Enterprise), some of them have been living under their own names, and in considerable prosperity. Roughly 300 reportedly went to Paraguay. Eichmann and others lived in Argentina. Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," made his home in Bolivia before he was extradited to France in 1983. Two major catches of former Nazi bigwigs occurred in Brazil. In 1967 Sao Paulo police seized Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of some 400,000 victims at the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps...
Next year, Perkel will study similar neurobiological aspects at a French national research institution in Lyon, partly because of a close working relationship with former Med School Professor of Neurology Simon...
...Speaker demeaned his position by coming down on the floor and getting involved in hand-to-hand combat." No one could recall a House Speaker ever having been thus reprimanded. (The only known precedent was in 1798, when the House was debating the expulsion of Vermont's Matthew Lyon, who had spit in the face of a fellow member. After an explosive exchange, Speaker Jonathan Dayton challenged another member to a duel. Dayton, who was indicted for treason nine years later, along with Aaron Burr, was called to order for improper utterances...
...subtitled My Canadian Album, is a mordant, witty brief for the defense of his homeland. As evidence, the Montreal native offers a series of diverse impressions of Canada's past imperfect and present tense. He lunches with Pierre Trudeau, and remembers an earlier Prime Minister, the gnomic William Lyon Mackenzie King, who "nightly for 22 years sat by his crystal ball, beneath an illuminated portrait of his mum, and rapped with her spirit, seeking guidance on how much to tax, when to call an election and where to send the troops." He ventures toward the Arctic Circle, to Yellowknife...
...added an unearned run in the fifth. Barrett singled, moved to second as right fielder Fred Lyon dropped Dwight Evans fly for an error, took third on Wade Boggs sacrifice bunt and scored on Mike Easler's sacrifice...