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...image in Austria has suffered because of a row with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky over former Nazis in Austrian politics. "Two old Jews fight, and the SS men laugh," says Wiesenthal sadly. He realizes that he may have to be content with what he calls "the biological solu-tion"-the hope that Mengele, who has circulatory ailments, will die soon. But that would not satisfy his outrage that a murderer has gone unpunished. And there is no guarantee that the hunter may not go before the hunted...
...pool their information. As a result, intelligence is spotty. Despite all this, Thai troops are performing well, and field officers continue to fight the "other war"-that is, gaining village support. Along the Mekong River, army helicopters rain propaganda leaflets on disaffected villages. The government has devised civic ac- tion programs to rebuild damaged hamlets, and anti-guerrilla patrols are often accompanied by doctors who bring free medical care to the hill people. But there remain deep misunderstandings. One deputy chief of a village still labeled "pro-Communist," after having been burned out by Thai police and rebuilt with government...
...after another, those scandalous stories have made recent headlines. Carswell and Walker have yet to reply formally to the charges other than to indicate their innocence. But both Wag-gonner and Howe have raised a troubling issue by making a counterallega-tion against the police. They claim they did nothing wrong and were subjected to attempted entrapment-the legal principle that can bar a conviction if law-enforcement officials have incited or enticed an individual to commit a crime...
...machines for atmosphere, never makes a simple cut when he can use a stately and portentous camera movement. He loves strange visual juxtapositions - a leopard roaming around a mansion or a violinist sawing away under a tree in a meadow - because jarring imagery, though it conveys no useful informa tion, is fondly believed to wow the impressionable...
...late '60s, in the midst of sup posedly affluent times, The New Yorker fell upon bitter days: tumbling circula tion, reduced advertising. Reluctantly, Eustace Tilley wiped off his smirk and rolled up his sleeves. For the first time in its history, the magazine printed a table of contents. Soon afterward, a bold pro motional campaign was launched, an nouncing that The New Yorker, yes, The New Yorker - which in palmier days had had a waiting list of advertisers - was actually soliciting business. Fortunately, the enterprise had accumulated enough wealth - and enough loyal writers, art ists and subscribers - to weather...