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Carlos moved next to Jordan, where he was trained as a hit man for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and impressed the group's co- leader Wadi Haddad. Contrary to myth, he did not take part in the Black September attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics that left 11 Israeli athletes dead. Instead, he was dispatched to London, where he hid behind the guise of an irresponsible Lothario as he established safe houses and arms caches...
...grade goods on offer turned out to be fraudulent -- German police have in the past four months uncovered four cases of smuggled nuclear material that could actually be used to make an atom bomb. The biggest haul came on Aug. 10, when Lufthansa Flight 3369 from Moscow landed in Munich with 350 grams of atomic fuel aboard. As it happened, so was Viktor Sidorenko, Russia's Deputy Minister for Atomic Energy, whose agency supervises Moscow's stocks of fissionable materials. The lead-lined suitcase was carrying MOX -- mixed-oxide fuel for reactors but perfectly usable in a bomb since...
...countries "emphasized the urgent necessity of putting a stop to the illegal trade in radioactive and nuclear material, regardless of its origin." The sketchy agreement is the fruit of a three-day visit to Moscow by German envoy Bernd Schmidbauer, whom an alarmed Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent over after Munich police confiscated 350 grams of plutonium traced to Russia...
Like the legendary fifth Beatle, there is a fourth member of this trio: conductor Zubin Mehta. An internationally renowned maestro who will shuttle to Munich immediately after the concert to conduct Tannhauser the following night, Mehta is a big catch for what is basically a pops performance. "Somebody has to steer this boat," he says. On a promotional video, Mehta appears as happy as a child at play, mixing it up with his three hammy friends. This is a rare sight; he is famous for his podium scowl. The unwonted ebullience points to one of the charms of the Three...
...Liberty, facing tight budgets and possible shutdown since the end of the Cold War, may breathe easier thanks to Czech President Vaclav Havel. Last night, President Clinton accepted Havel's offer to house the broadcasters in the former Czechoslovakian parliament building in Prague -- rent-free. The stations, based in Munich for four decades, said the move would shore up their 1,500 employees' morale, but TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says few really want to leave their comfortable German surroundings. The Czechs, he adds, are only too happy to import a prestigious Western operation, especially this...