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...engineer husband Geza were living on a coffee and fruit farm in Nova Europa, 175 miles north of Sao Paulo, when they were introduced at a social function to Wolfgang Gerhard. Gerhard, an Austrian living in Brazil, asked the Stammers if they could take in a Swiss friend of his named Peter Hochbichlet. The friend, Gerhard said, would be able to help out around the farm. Agreeing to put up Peter, or "Pedro," in a separate house on their property, the family found him to be as good as Gerhard's word: the man paid the Stammers a nominal rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...husband Geza owned a small farm in southern Sao Paulo state, claimed that Mengele had lived with the couple for 13 years. According to her statement, in 1961 the Stammers were introduced by Wolfgang Gerhard to a man who called himself Peter Hochbichlet and who said he was Swiss. They gave him a job helping to administer their farm, and the man moved in with them. A year later, the woman said, Hochbichlet confessed that he was really Mengele. Even so, he continued to live with the couple until they sold their farm in 1974. In February 1979, she claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches a Manhunt Leads to Bones | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...tall, ruddy-cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain, and smiled: "Thank you, Prior, for we have been praying all day for the weather to improve." The quip brought a laugh from Kohl's companion, French President Francois Mitterrand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summits Damage Control | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...Israeli air force jet transports for Geneva. At approximately the same hour, the three Israeli prisoners took off from Damascus, the capital of Syria. On arrival in Geneva, the Arab prisoners remained aboard the Israeli planes, parked in a remote corner of the airport and surrounded by blue-bereted Swiss security commandos, until the Israelis were flown in. The laborious exchange dragged out over eleven hours. At about the same time, 151 Arab prisoners were released by Israel on the Golan Heights and handed over to Syrian and Lebanese authorities, while 605 others were bused from jails in Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Fallout of an Ugly War | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

SENTENCED. Robert Leclerc, 67, prominent Swiss banker and shelterer of foreign tax dodgers, whose private bank came up $199 million short in a 1977 scandal that rocked Geneva's financial establishment and triggered apparent suicides by two fellow bank officials; to five years for "fraudulent management and abuse of confidence"; in Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 3, 1985 | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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