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...Austro-Italian surveying team determined that the find was 92.6 m (101 yds.) inside Italian soil, namely the autonomous region of South Tyrol. The result has been a custody battle every bit as absurd as the bungled recovery effort. "Rome was ready to demand the body back immediately," explains a South Tyrolean scientist. "It was then that we in South Tyrol pointed out that this province has authority over its own culture and patrimony." Innsbruck, of course, wanted to keep the celebrated corpse...
...Innsbruck scientists are hoping to conduct as much research as possible, while struggling with the costs of the Iceman's upkeep -- $10,000 a month. To help cover these expenses, they are charging high fees for photo opportunities and using profits from book sales and lecture tours. Rome hasn't made the research effort any easier. Authorities there, furious over the Iceman's mismanaged recovery, declared that the mummy is the archaeological equivalent of "a Leonardo" and warned that it should not be damaged "in any way." When Innsbruck sent out the snippets of flesh "no larger than a sweetening...
...living descendants. Innsbruck University anatomist Werner Platzer feels frustrated and bewildered: "The Italian ministry has told us that we are not allowed to destroy a bit of the body," he complains. On the other hand, "they say that if no research is carried out, the body must go to Rome for research purposes." As head of the anatomical-research project, Platzer has decided to ignore Rome's objection. This month he will begin doling out minuscule bits of the Iceman for analysis by experts in many nations. "This find is for scientists all over the world," he argues...
...Drogoul was to be sentenced, Congressman Henry Gonzalez, who had been looking into the case for two years, announced that he had a summary of classified CIA cables regarding B.N.L.-Rome's knowledge of the banker's activities. Judge Shoob immediately asked for an explanation. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Urgenson requested that the CIA declassify the Sept. 4 letter so it could be given to Shoob along with the report and the cables that had gone to Gonzalez. According to Urgenson, CIA counsel George Jameson acknowledged that the letter was misleading and asked whether the CIA should redraft it. Urgenson...
...learned that on Sept. 30, the day before Drogoul's sentencing hearing ended, the CIA had discovered six more classified documents relevant to the case. By this time Drogoul had a flamboyant new Georgia attorney named Bobby Lee Cook, who argued that the banker was an innocent pawn of Rome and Washington. An investigation by an Italian parliamentary committee leaned toward the same conclusion. Shoob thus allowed the Justice Department to cancel its plea-bargain agreement with Drogoul. But U.S. prosecutors still believe they were right. Says Brill: "((Drogoul)) had confessed to the crime over and over again...