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...defending their former lives. In one incident, 80 ex-Stasi officers sought to block a series of memorial plaques to 40,000 local people arrested by the state security forces from being erected outside Germany's Stasi memorial, an old interrogation center and prison that now serves as a museum. "They are telling lies!" shouted the group's organizer, Wolfgang Schmidt, a former agent, who also used his website to accuse the museum's director, Hubertus Knabe, of being a "professional agitator." Earlier this month, Schmidt was ordered to stop communicating with or about Knabe, or face a fine...
...Neill said he and the producers were perplexed at what they perceived as a withdrawal of support by the Pentagon for the film, which premiered last week at the National Museum of American History. Paul Boyce, a Pentagon spokesperson, pointed out that 40 members of the unit attended the premiere and the film was also screened at 22 military installations. "Every person in uniform we've spoken to has said that we've presented the truth," O'Neill says...
...estimates that between 100 and 300 people, both local and foreign, visit the museum, including “a lot of Swedes...
Slated for June is a tribute to a recent Museum of Fine Arts show of David Hockney portraits. MOBA will in turn feature “hackneyed portraits...
...attachment to the old and familiar, it appears, extends even to his choice of automobile. Back in 1969, the young army colonel who led the conspiracy against King Idriss, smuggled men and weapons around Libya in a battered turquoise Volkswagen Beetle, which is a popular Libyan National Museum exhibit. So it was not surprising that when Gaddafi said goodbye to his visitor and climbed into the passenger seat of a waiting car, it was a brand-new, metallic blue...