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...trial may take more than a year to prepare and the harshest possible verdict would be life imprisonment, since France abolished the death penalty in 1981. Yet how can one every pay enough for crime against humanity, for the thousands uprooted from their homes and sent by the trainload to Auschwitz and other camps? As Jacques Block, President of the Jewish Federation of Lyon, put it: "The crimes of this man are such that there is no penalty equal to them...
...looked like a cross between a gigantic camp meeting and the gathering of the lost tribes of Israel. First singly, then in twos and threes, finally by the trainload, land-hungry Americans gathered along the edges of a stretch of the Oklahoma Territory known as the Unassigned Lands. Through most of April 1889, soldiers patrolled the edges of the area to keep anyone from crossing into the territory prematurely...
...curator who was awarded France's Médaille de la Résistance for foiling Nazi plans to plunder European art during World War II. Valland recorded the destinations of thousands of appropriated paintings and sculptures, thus facilitating later recovery. She also managed to delay a whole trainload of art from leaving the Jeu de Paume in Paris until the city was liberated by Allied troops...
Meanwhile, the main body of Katangese circled Bumba's positions to join the infiltrators in a lightning attack that erupted everywhere in Mutshatsha at once. Within an hour, they had seized the army command post, the rail yard and a trainload of U.S.-and Belgian-made arms and ammunition. When Bumba's edgy battalions realized they had been bypassed, they simply streamed away through the jungle. After the loss of Mutshatsha-which the government denied for six days-Mobutu replaced his local commander with General Singa Boyenge...
While driving through the Buenos Aires suburb of La Lucila last September, Juan and Jorge Born, members of one of Argentina's richest families, were abducted by left-wing Montonero guerrillas. As a trainload of commuters watched in horror, the Montoneros, posing as policemen and telephone workers, forced the Borns' limousine into a side street, shot and killed their chauffeur and a business associate who was riding with them, and seized the brothers. Both were executives in the family-owned Bunge y Born, the largest privately owned firm in Argentina (grain, metals, Pharmaceuticals, textiles...