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...camp in Poland during World War II--and then he is said to have returned to his hometown of Gunzburg in Bavaria. He is said to have been arrested and released by U.S. counterintelligence agents in Vienna in 1947--and then to have made his way to a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. He is said to have narrowly eluded Israeli agents who kidnaped fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires--and then taken up residence in neighboring Paraguay, where he is rumored to be living today. Now 74, Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," has become...
...three men, who reportedly have no connection with the University, were nabbed in the Boston suburb after officers from Harvard, Cambridge and Belmont received a copy of the getaway car's license plate from a Greenhouse employee...
...five clergymen stood behind a wooden cross outside a power station in a Brisbane suburb two weeks ago singing We Shall Overcome. Within minutes, they were themselves overcome, spirited away by the police. Since March, similar scenes have been re-enacted almost daily in Queensland, Australia's northeastern state, where 231 people have been arrested in protests against harsh new labor legislation sponsored by the state's right-wing Premier Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, 74, who is called "Jackboots Joh" by detractors. Among other things, the laws require unions to give up to seven days' notice of their intention...
Living humbly is important to Foreman. He even shed himself of a grand place in Houston for an $81,000 house in a suburb called Humble. He preaches on the weekends and Wednesday nights, mows his yard, trims his hedges and spends two days a week on the ranch, threading his truck between slash pines and pin oaks to haul feed to his cows and horses. Animals are his passion--animals and sleeping and eating. "I think sleeping was my problem in school," he allowed. "If school had started at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon...
Gary Dotson was a young landscape worker in a Chicago suburb when Cathleen Crowell, then 16, told police in 1977 that she had been abducted, beaten and raped. Based on her testimony, Dotson was convicted and sentenced to 25 to 50 years in jail. He has spent the past six years in an Illinois state penitentiary. But last week Crowell confessed that she had made up the story. Awaiting a hearing that could result in his release this week, Dotson, now 28, found reason to praise his false accuser. Said he: "I just want to thank her for showing that...