Word: municher
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...knows who is responsible for the blast: a shadowy Palestinian called Khalil who has terrorized Western Europe with apparent impunity. Kurtz pays his hidden adversary a supreme compliment: "There's a brain at work." Kurtz has also located Khalil's younger brother and collaborator, currently living in Munich, and has a team of agents in place performing round-the-clock surveillance. When an Israeli colleague wonders impatiently why they do not just kill the brother and be done with him, Kurtz replies that "he doesn't lead anywhere." Little brother becomes expendable only when a trap...
Four thousand Israelis took to the streets to protest against their own government because Arabs had been killed, and forced it to undertake an inquiry, in stark contrast to the throngs of Arabs who cheered when Israeli athletes were murdered in Munich. These people, in this democracy, are the surest guarantees "of deterring individuals from future wrong...
...that the Social Democrats, under Vogel, have moved just far enough to the left on the NATO missile and economic issues to pick up some Greens supporters. Another reason is that, ironically enough, the Greens' moral credibility comes at the cost of their political credibility. Says a Munich tenants' rights organizer: "The Greens have trouble enough trying to find out what their supporters want, let alone having to deal with questions like how they will vote on unemployment programs." If the Greens fail to win 5% of the vote, their future as a political force will depend...
Barbie's arrest was particularly gratifying to Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, a French lawyer and his German-born wife who have specialized in tracking down Nazi criminals. When a Munich court tried to close the Barbie case in 1971, Beate Klarsfeld launched an international protest campaign that eventually turned up information on the missing SS man's whereabouts in Latin America. Largely on the basis of new evidence from the Klarsfelds, Lyon Magistrate Christian Riss decided to reopen the Barbie dossier in February 1982. This was necessary because his 1947 and 1954 convictions had lapsed as a result...
...secretly recruited Barbie to conduct spying missions in eastern Germany immediately following Hitler's defeat. Barbie supposedly helped gather information on Soviet troop positions as well as on the whereabouts of other Gestapo fugitives wanted by Allied authorities; in return he was given a false identity, a home in Munich and the opportunity to get out of Germany while the Americans played dumb and refused French requests for his arrest. By 1951, the Butcher of Lyon was safely exiled in Bolivia...