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...exemplified the characteristic that Germans call Kadaverge-horsam, i.e., the unquestioning obedience that enables even a corpse to do what it is told. If he had refused to obey Hitler, says Eichmann with an unaccustomed ring of truth, "I would have been not only a scoundrel but a despicable pig!" This, in effect, will be the argument of Eichmann's defense attorney, West Germany's Dr. Robert Servatius...
...only against the Russians. Nothing came of the plan, and Hungary's Jews were shipped to the gas chambers. With the Reich visibly collapsing. Heinrich Himmler thought he might save himself by using the remaining Jews as hostages. He ordered the killing stopped. For once. Eichmann refused to obey an order. He sent word to Commandant Hoess: "No one will walk out of Auschwitz. There is only one way they will leave-through the smokestacks...
...simply declared that Iran would no longer accept the Court's jurisdiction. Last year the Court finally, after years of arguments, ruled for Honduras in the ancient Honduras-Nicaragua border squabble, but to this day the judges have received no official word as to whether Nicaragua agreed to obey the decree...
Behind the big house walls, the Muslims attempt to proselyte in the mess halls, in the exercise areas, wherever they encounter other Negroes. Converts go through a reform of sorts, if they obey Elijah's injunction to give up tobacco, dope and alcohol and pray five times daily facing Mecca. Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims...
...patient should know how to take care of herself and obey doctor's orders, it is Manhattan's handsome, blonde Carolyn Diehl. She graduated first in her class ('50) at Cornell University Medical College and married a classmate who is a research physician. As a doctor for personnel at New York Hospital-Cornell, she spends a lot of time telling nurses and student nurses when to stay in bed. But last week Dr. Diehl was dragging around after almost a month of futile attempts to cure herself of an unidentified virus...