Word: municheer
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...subsequent testimony, Agca continued his revelations. He said that the Soviet Union had commissioned Turkish terrorists to blow up Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, the U.S.-financed radio stations in Munich. When he was shown photographs of St. Peter's Square taken moments before he shot the Pope, Agca identified Bulgarian Defendant Sergei Antonov. It was the first time he had claimed that the former representative of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines was in the square at the time of the shooting. Agca also accused Propaganda Due, a / secret Italian Masonic lodge, of the 1983 kidnaping of the 15-year...
...also the perverted emblem of his origins. He came from a wealthy commercial family in Bavaria. He studied Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music...
...Federal Prosecutor Hans Eberhard Klein had nearly despaired of ever getting cooperation from the close-mouthed Mengele family, Rolf Mengele's unexpected statement about his father's fate stirred worldwide interest. It also revealed the eccentric ways of the secrecy-loving clan. As reporters gathered outside the office of Munich Architect Jens Hackenjos, young Mengele's stepbrother, Hackenjos sent his wife Sabine, accompanied by Herbert Bauermeister, a free-lance journalist, to inform newspeople that her husband had already handed over Rolf's statement to German wire-service agencies. At his own apartment Hackenjos opened his door just a crack, checked...
...happen to be a firm believer in idealism, and idealism seems to be what the Olympics are all about in the first place. When we forget that, and fail to rise above the frequent baseness of politics, we must confront the blood of Israeli weighlifters--as in Munich in 1972--a boycott by 26 Black African nations in 1976, an American-led boycott by 55 nations in 1980, and a retaliatory Soviet boycott...
...liars are often impossible to read. Says Ekman: "We live in a probabilistic world. You're only going to make an estimate." (Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler, Ekman believes, was good at lying because of his ability to hide his emotions. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, duped by Hitler at Munich in 1938, once wrote, "Here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word...