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First stop on Zhirinovsky's 10-day tour de farce was the Munich airport, where he met with a leader of Germany's radical right and publicly reaffirmed his desire that Germany and Russia carve up Poland between them. While the German press denounced him as "Russia's Hitler," Zhirinovsky blissfully continued his holiday in a remote village in the Austrian Alps, where he paid a call on his friend Edwin Neuwirth, an industrialist who has denied that the Nazis used gas chambers to kill Jews during World War II and has told reporters he was "proud" to have served...
Coach Rawson took the 1929 National Junior Championship at the 135lb. class, fighting under the lights of the newly opened Chicago Stadium. He has over 80 professional boxing victories to his name and coached the Burmese Olympic boxing team at the Munich Games of 1972. He is likely the only person on the planet who initially began boxing because he had broken his nose playing both football and baseball and was looking for a less damaging alternative. Five years ago, Tommy became the only person ever to knock in two holes-in-one in the same round of golf...
After Pope Paul VI named him Archbishop of Munich in 1977, Ratzinger found an ally in a fellow Cardinal who shared his view of the church as the bulwark against barbaric atheism and dehumanizing secularism: Karol Wojtyla, the Archbishop of Cracow and the future John Paul II. Both were members of the worldwide Synod of Bishops -- an advisory council to the Pope. In 1980, two years after his accession, John Paul asked Ratzinger to join him in Rome. The Pontiff was turned down -- twice. Finally Ratzinger laid out his conditions. He would come only if he could continue to speak...
...Cardinal, who is into his third five-year term at the Congregation, is the longest-serving major official in John Paul's Vatican. Might he be elected Pope one day? Vatican watchers say no: he is too controversial, and his brief record in pastoral work -- as Archbishop of Munich -- is at best spotty. Meanwhile, his health, while good today, has been precarious in the past. In September 1991 he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage that affected his left field of vision. Then in August 1992 he fell against a radiator and was knocked unconscious, bleeding profusely. "Thank God, there are hardly...
...Israel swore it would seek revenge following the massacre of 11 of its athletes by members of the P.L.O. at the Olympic Games in Munich. Last week a former Israeli director of military intelligence official revealed just how effectively that retaliation was carried out, when military censors finally allowed an interview he gave a year ago to be broadcast on national television. The official, Aharon Yariv, said between 10 and 15 Palestinians involved in the Munich attack had been assassinated by Israeli agents...