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...sustained in Phuoc Long province: "I did my duty. But after I was wounded, I wondered if the war was right or wrong. It cost so much. I still wonder." His roommate, Hoang Dinh Trung, 39, was similarly disabled in 1972 in Quang Tri province during a B-52 raid. "I was only 18 when I was mobilized," he says. "Looking back to wartime, it was awful. Really awful. I'm afraid of any more wars." When told that many American veterans share his feelings, he says tentatively, almost shyly, "I'd like them to come...
...impersonators seem to love their work. Suzanne McGohey of Dumfries, Va., was a schoolteacher until she started impersonating a hooker at Hogan's Alley. Given the alias Wanda Lust, she swaddles herself in a mink coat and pearls that the FBI seized in a drug raid. Says she: "Where else can you act like a sleaze and get paid for it? It enables you to be deviant in a healthy...
Wiesenthal also criticizes Israeli secret-service chief Isser Harel, whose memoirs did not mention Wiesenthal's contributions to the capture of Eichmann. (The story of that raid is vividly told in a new memoir by the actual capturer, Eichmann in My Hands, by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein, to be published in May by Warner Books.) Other Wiesenthal targets include former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, a Jewish Socialist, for including four ex- Nazis in his first Cabinet, and Elie Wiesel, for not including a Gypsy on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council...
...unauthorized loans from the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro to finance the purchase of industrial products in the U.S. The Iraqis also possessed about 25 lbs. of enriched uranium salvaged from the Osirak nuclear reactor, which was destroyed by Israeli warplanes in a surprise raid in June...
...hotel is the complete perfect example of what they're doing when they take away assets from people. They came out in a midnight raid. They brought photographers, they brought the media, the police, the FBI. They raided that hotel, took it over, tacked termination notices on the doors of some 30-odd employees, including the general manager, at 1:30 in the morning. What in the hell do you think you're dealing with...