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...winner was NBC's galloping "news correspondent" Tom Brokaw, fresh from his exclusive prime-time pow-wow with Gorby in Moscow. He still has trouble pronouncing words that begin with the letter "L", but he was in charge throughout with the help of the same bell that rings when letters are turned on Wheel of Fortune. Candidates knew their minute was up when a soft electronic bell was cued, much like Johnny Carson knows he has to break to a commercial when the pianist breaks into arpeggios...
Demjanjuk stumbled repeatedly as a panel of three judges and a team of well-prepared Israeli prosecutors poked holes in his personal World War II chronology. He maintains that he was drafted into the Russian army in 1941, was captured by the Germans in 1942 and served in German POW camps until 1944, when he joined the anti-Soviet "Vlasov army" in Poland. Asked why he failed at first to tell U.S. authorities that he spent 18 months at a POW camp in Chelm, Poland, as he now insists, Demjanjuk said he forgot. When told that the Vlasov army...
...single putative love interest: Philip Dunne, 28, a London bachelor who works at the investment banking firm of S.G. Warburg. Never mind that Dunne already has a pretty girlfriend named Katya Grenfell. Young, successful and with a vague resemblance to Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman), Dunne fit the role perfectly. POW! SUPERMAN PHIL IS DIANA'S NEW PAL blared the News of the World...
Prosecutor Michael Shaked presented an altogether different story about Demjanjuk's past. From the POW camp in Chelm, Shaked maintains, Demjanjuk was transferred to Trawniki, an SS center used for training guards to work in the concentration camps, and then to Treblinka, where he served between October 1942 and September 1943. The prosecution's primary exhibit is ID card 1393, made out in Demjanjuk's name and supposedly issued at the Trawniki training center. The defense contends that the card is a forgery by the Soviet KGB as part of an effort to harass the Ukrainian community...
Another crucial piece of evidence is an i.d. card allegedly labelling Demjanjuk as a member of an elite Ukranian POW group that was trained by the Nazi SS as prison guards for Treblinka. The card, which includes a photo and personal data, is especially important because the Germans destroyed all Treblinka records when they abandoned the site...