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Over the next months, the Popular Front staged airport or aircraft attacks against El Al in Athens, Zurich and Munich, though with scant success. One of its men was killed by an Israeli security guard in Zurich, and twelve have been captured. The P.F.L.P. is widely believed to have caused the explosion aboard a Swissair jetliner en route to Israel last February that sent 47 people to their death. Early this spring, it even issued a fund-raising stamp celebrating its hijacking successes. Then in July, apparently having decided that too many of its air pirates were languishing in foreign...
...fall of 1932, Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen, monarchist, amateur philosopher and member of Bavaria'-landed gentry, was dining with a friend at a Munich restaurant. Like many other Germans during those disorderly times, he carried a revolver to protect himself against street thugs. Seated alone at an adjacent table was a sullen, self-conscious political comer named Adolf Hitler. "I could easily have shot him," Fritz Reck wrote in his diary four years later. "If I had had an inkling of the role this piece of filth was to play, and of the years of suffering...
...sporadic journal of the Nazi plague years, which Reck began in 1936 and whose last entry is dated October 1944, survived to be published in Germany two years after the war. Reck wrote it secretly and kept it hidden in the woods on his land not far from Munich. It is easy to see why. In the journal, Hitler appears as a "gypsy baron," 'a teetotaling Alexander," a "vegetarian Tamerlane," "an unclean essence." Mein Kampf is dismissed by Reck as "Machiavelli for chambermaids." Albert Speer's clean-cut expression is "the epitome of this whole, sickening, mechanical, little...
Useful Pollution. Some recent aquaculture projects actually make use of pollution. In southern Germany near Munich, the Bavarian Hydropower Co. is already reaping a profit by using sewage (rich in minerals) as a fertilizer in carp ponds. The idea is not entirely new; natives of West Java have long known that carp raised in streams filled with wastes grow unusually robust. There is only one caveat: the fish must be well cooked before they are eaten...
False Arrest. A Munich civil rights lawyer is now filing suit to bar XY. He charges that the show 1) creates the impression that the accused are guilty before they can receive a trial and 2) rouses a "chase fever because of the rewards. Zimmermann has made all Germans bounty hunters...