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...Died. Rudolf Appelt, 54, East German Ambassador to Moscow, onetime vice president of the Foreign and International Trade Committee of the East German Economic Commission; in Berlin...
...Young Rudolf Kastner had been a fixer in a small Hungarian town. When Admiral Horthy capitulated to Hitler in 1944, Kastner was head of Budapest's Jewish Rescue Committee. Soon after the Nazis took over, Kastner and some of his colleagues were called before Karl Eichmann, a top Nazi official, to listen to a proposition. "I want to do business," Eichmann told them. "Blood for goods, goods for blood. I am willing to sell one million Jews for ten thousand trucks, a thousand cans of coffee and tea and some soap. Go to Switzerland, Turkey, Spain-go where...
...mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed them. Last year, after poring through mountains of yellowed records, he pointed the finger of blame at Rudolf (now Israel) Kastner, by then a citizen of Israel himself, a promising politico in the Mapai Party and an assistant to Cabinet Minister Dov Joseph...
...statements recently made in criticism of the public schools,' none has stirred up quite such an argument as the sentence in Rudolf Flesch's bestselling Why Johnny Can't Read: "The teaching of reading-all over the United States, in all the schools, and in all the textbooks-is totally wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense." How accurate is Flesch's gloomy picture? Last week, in the Chicago Sun-Times, a onetime assistant professor at Western Reserve who is now a reporter spoke up for the educators. Flesch...
...tapestries in Vienna-there are hundreds lying around in vaults-but museum officials refused to let any go. "First thing you know," said a grumpy museum spokesman, "people will be rubbing their cigarettes out on them." It hardly seems likely. For, in the words of the Metropolitan's Rudolf Bing, a Viennese himself, "The Vienna Opera means to the Viennese what women mean to Don Giovanni. It is the air they breathe, the food they eat, and the girl they love...