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Mengele believed still alive,
Israeli police report indicates
JERUSALEM (AP) — Josef Mengele, the
infamous Nazi doctor at the Auschwitz con
centration camp, may still be alive despite
claims that he drowned in Brazil in 1979, a
never-published Israeli police report says.
The report points to discrepancies in the
medical findings that led American, Ger
man and Brazilian forensic experts to con
clude jointly that the skeleton exhumed
from a Brazilian cemetery was "within a rea
sonable scientific certainty" that of Meng
ele.
The report was submitted to the Israeli
Justice and Police Ministries in 1986 but was
never published. An English version of the
report was distributed this week to journal
ists by CANDLES, Children of Auschwitz
Nazi Deadly Lab Experiment Survivors,
which campaigns to continue the hunt for
Mengele.
Mengele, known as "the Angel of Death,"
is accused of sending about 400,000 people
to the gas chambers and of conducting cruel
medical experiments on camp inmates.
He fled to South America in 1949, and
lived in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. In
1985 it was announced that Mengele had
drowned six years previously, and his
friends directed police to a grave marked
"Wolfgang Gerhard" in the Embu cemetery
near Sao Paolo.
The police report was written by Menac-
hem Russak, formerly Israel's chief police
investigator of war crimes. In it he claims
that enough inconsistencies exist to "sug
gest an assumption that the body discov
ered ... is not that of Josef Mengele."
Russak was the Israeli on the multinatio
nal team of experts that went to Brazil in
1985 to verify the announcement of Meng
ele's death.
The U.S. Office of Special Investigations
also has not published the findings, accord
ing to Ephraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli
branch of the Nazi-hunting Weisenthal
Center.
Zuroff says the Russak report raises ques
tions. But he said he does not think it un
dermines the forensic evidence.
Russak confirmed the report's authentic
ity but declined to elaborate on it.
Miriam Zeiger, a survivor of Mengele's
experiments and head of the Israeli branch
of CANDLES, said the report was handed
to her twin sister by an anonymous person
at a Jerusalem conference earlier this year.
She said Israeli Justice Minister Dan Me-
ridor met the group last month and rejected
a request to publish the Russak report.
The Justice Ministry said the report was
"never adopted by the government."
Spokeswoman Etti Eshed said the govern
ment is still trying to discover the truth,
"but in the interest of the efforts cannot give
further details."
The 60-page report questioned several fo
rensic findings from the bones at Embu
cemetery.
Assorted Russian spacecraft on display
Fort Worth museums host
'Soviet Space' exhibition
Sept. 14
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FORT WORTH (AP) — "So-
viet Space," a "blockbuster" ex
hibit of Russian space rockets,
rovers and orbital wonders,
opens a six-month run June 29 in
the city's cultural district.
The Soviet display is the cor
nerstone of a visual spectacular
that includes "Blue Planet," a
film featuring footage from five
American space shuttle mis
sions.
The spacefest also showcases a
traveling exhibit of space arti
facts, called Space Spinoffs, and
a new Noble Planetarium pro-
f ram, "SpaceRace," which high-
ghts the U.S.-Soviet race to the
moon.
"There truly is something for
everyone to see and enjoy," says
Don Otto, executive director of
the Fort Worth Museum of Sci
ence and History.
The museum, which is pre
senting the space show, is in the
heart of the west side cultural
district and will house all but the
"Soviet Space" exhibit.
Some 80 tons of Russian space
equipment will be on display at
the nearby Carter Exhibits Hall
in the Will Rogers Memorial
Complex.
The multimedia show is ex
pected to draw more than half a
million visitors to the cultural
district before it closes Jan. 1,
1992.
"We are very excited about
"Soviet Space" and the possibili
ties this multiple programming
gives us," said Otto, noting that
the show celebrates the mu
seum's 50th anniversary.
"Many Americans may be un
aware that the Soviet space pro
gram has accomplished an im
pressive list of 'firsts' in space
over the years, including the first
human flight in space, the first
space flight by a woman and the
first space walk."
The exhibit includes a full-
scale model of Sputnik, the first
artificial satellite to orbit the
earth, and a modified Vostok de
scent capsule similar to one that
returned Yuri Gagarin from the
first manned space flight.
Also on display is Lunokhod
2, a test model of the unmanned
automatic moon rover that ex
plored 23 miles of the lunar sur
face in 1973.
Throughout the exhibit, a So
viet technician will operate the
rover on a simulated lunar land
scape.
Bush reaffirms^
U.S. advocacy -
of Gorbachev r
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush warmly welcomed
radical reformer Boris Yeltsin to
the White House on Thursday
but immediately reaffirmed U.S.
support for the man often tar-
f eted by the new Russian presi-
enfls criticism — Mikhail S.
Gorbachev.
"I want to be very clear about
this: The United States will con
tinue to maintain the closest pos
sible official relationship with
the Soviet
government
of President
Gorbachev,"
Bush told
Yeltsin at the
opening of
their talks.
Yeltsin,
capping a tri
umphant visit
to Washing
ton, arrived at
the White
House in a
chauffeur-driven
by a procession of motorcyle po
lice. It was in sharp contrast to
his 1989 visit, when Bush re
fused to give Yeltsin a formal ap
pointment, though he did see
him briefly.
Congratulating him on his
election as Russian president.
Bush said, "He won by a landsli
de."
Boris Yeltsin as
sures Bush the
Soviet Union
won’t go back to
‘‘stagnation.’’
limousine led
"We have been heartened and
encouraged by President Yelt
sin's commitment to democratic
values and free-market prin
ciples, and we look forward to
working with him," Bush said.
and working cooperatively
gether to achieve these ends
"He knows that I havegr
respect for President Gorbac
as I do for him," Bush said.
"And our ability to work
gether has produced, I thi
enormous benefits for botk
our countries, and it has ser ;
the cause of world peace and
bility in the world."
\]o\.
Yeltsin told Bush thathisej
tion — which was the first pr^
dential balloting in Russa
1,000-year history — was at w
date for democracy and "p S ar’
found economic and sodali uri ai
form." pa
Yet, Yeltsin said "We still hi each
forces back at home that wan; flelp
go back to the times of slap But
tion." sk
"I assure you this will noth; Th
g en," the populist leader tidren
ush through an interpreter, the r
nom
"Russia, which accounts foi ch , < d
percent of the gross nafcmen
product of the Soviet Union he ah
firmly committed to democningf
and will not allow any re\
sion.
Yeltsin's Russian federah|
has urged a cutoff of all Sov
foreign aid, including moneyi—,
Cuba. MJ
Bush, replying to a report
question, said "They know!'
we've had differences on Gl
and it wouldn't hurt my feefe
a bit if they cut off all foreign;
to Cuba."
At the same time. Bush under
scored his support for Gorba
chev, who is struggling to keep
his nation from political and eco
nomic chaos.
Bush said Yeltsin, in the first
minutes of their meeting, told
him that "he and President Gor
bachev are in very close contact
In addition to Bush, Yek
met with Commerce Seoe: Te:
Robert A. Mosbacher and will c
group of American business Jr. s
ecutives to discuss expanifo' th
trade and investment in thefoffler,
sian republic. I Pal
He also stopped at the Per.gg
gon for talks with Defense Se;-^
tary Dick Cheney.
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