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...than 20 years, Wiesenthal has been stalking Dr. Josef Mengele, the SS physician, known as the Angel of Death, who sent millions to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed thousands more in mad genetic experiments. Wiesenthal has long suspected-as have others-that Mengele was hiding in Paraguay. Despite firm denials from the Asunción government, Wiesenthal believes that Mengele is now living in the village of San Antonio, in a remote area southeast of the Paraguayan capital. But the evil physician of Auschwitz, frustratingly, remains beyond his reach...
Although Paraguayan authorities deny it, Wiesenthal believes that Mengele entered Paraguay in May 1959. Thanks to German settlers there, Mengele was promptly granted citizenship and given naturalization card...
Wiesenthal claims to have pieced together new and fuller details about Mengele's life in Paraguay. The old doctor spends much of his time in a military zone that is off limits to all outsiders. Besides his villa in San Antonio, Mengele has a home in Puerto Stroessner, a town situated at the confluence of the Parana and Iguagu rivers...
...knows no Portuguese, the language of the biggest country she will visit ?Brazil. Mrs. Carter's itinerary takes her to four democracies (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright affectionate one in some places. A representative of Peru's leftist regime, evidently viewing her more as a tourist than a diplomat, promised...
Shunned by Neighbors. Chief Minister Kaiser D. (for Daliwonga) Matanzima, 61, who heads the Transkei government, sent invitations to most countries of the world, only to receive formal rejections or silence. He is still hoping that conservative regimes in Taiwan, Paraguay, Malawi, Rhodesia and perhaps Ivory Coast may send delegations-but that will be about all. Even his nearest neighbors are shunning him. Swaziland says it will "continue to recognize the Transkei as a region of South Africa and nothing more," and Lesotho (which is surrounded by South Africa but, like Swaziland, was never part of it) has decided that...