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...that his fingerprints can never be taken, and had a mistress in Santiago who bore him four children. As of a few weeks ago, Farago contended, Bormann was back in Argentina, in Salta province, living in "a cottage on the Rancho Grande, the vast estate of Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, last scion of the Krupp family." Like so much of Farago's other material, this episode included authentic-sounding detail, stating, for instance, that Bormann's attentive host was the estate's manager, a naturalized Turk. But too many of the details do not stand...
...fourth and final movement seemed dedicated to Wagner - first the somber three-note motif from the Ring cycle, then a bare but undisguised hint of love theme from Tristan und Isolde...
...historic trade routes of Southern Europe, drinking in the influence of other cultures, Munich has always been chiefly absorbed with the manufacture and enjoyment of Bavarian Gemütlichkeit (some of which is identified by its sudsy head). It's all very apparent today, this spirit of "leben und leben lassen"-a cheery apathy and beery tolerance combined with a benign condescension toward anything German that is not also old Bavarian. The ambience of the cities to the north-those pompous Prussians-can be described in straight lines and right angles. Munich gives you embroidered corners and fanciful curlicues...
...Army Faction in Munich planted bombs at the U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg, killing three Americans, and boasts of another bombing in Frankfurt, which killed an American colonel. West German Autobahnen have been strung with roadblocks, and police searched for the remaining members of the bomb-slinging Bonnie und Clyde gang (TIME, June 12). So far, six have been caught. One was Gudrun Ensslin, 31, a minister's daughter and former student of German literature, who was captured in a Hamburg boutique after a saleswoman noticed a pistol stuffed into her jacket...
...arrests capped the largest man hunt in West Germany's postwar history. Tens of thousands of police have been combing the country for the terrorists, who have brought West Germany to the edge of hysteria. In the previous two weeks alone, the Bonnie und Clyde gang is believed to have been responsible for six major bombings, including two at U.S. Army installations that killed four U.S. servicemen and injured 41 persons. Modeling themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, the gang, which numbered about 25 at its zenith, has engaged in a string of brazen bank robberies, car thefts...