Soviet pets turned into fur hats spark outrage
In Moscow a Soviet newspaper denounces pet skinning for fur clothing. A woman defends her dog skins noting habit and family uses, while Yuri Shhvedov of a Moscow nature protection group says the illegal income from pet furs is weakly enforced. The piece, titled Stop Unearned Income, highlights unauthorized fur selling beyond state channels.
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Moscow
Trud
Yuri Shhvedov
Nature Preservation Society
Scientists begin formal exam of Mengele skeleton remains
A multinational team from Brazil, the United States, West Germany and Israel partners with Brazilian coroners to study a skeleton thought to be Nazi Josef Mengele. They aim to match the bones with Mengele's medical records to confirm if the drowned man who died in Brazil in 1979 is the Auschwitz physician blamed for mass killings.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Josef Mengele
United States
West Germany
Israel
Mengele
Auschwitz
Poland
Indictments in Taiwan financial scandal squeeze empire
In Taipei 87 people face charges from forgery to embezzlement and breach of trust after a financial scandal toppled a business empire. Among the indicted are Tenth Credit Co operative officials and Cathay Plastics leaders including Tsai Chen-chou, already jailed on related charges.
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Taipei
Taiwan
Tenth Credit Cooperative
Cathay Plastics Company
Tsai Chen-chou
Tenth Credit
Cathay Plastics
Italian agents coached Agca says Bulgarians lawyers claim
Defense lawyers asked the court to compel mobster Giovanni Pandico to testify that Mehmet Ali Agca was coached by Camorra leaders and Italian secret service agents to implicate the Soviet Union and Bulgaria in the papal assassination attempt. Pandico cited a L Espressо interview while Agca's cooperation shifted the case toward three Bulgarians and four Turks.
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Rome
Mehmet Ali Agca
Soviet Union
Bulgaria
Manfredo Rossi
John Paul I
L’espresso
Giovanni Pandico
Naples
Pandico
Ascoli Piceno
Italy
Agca
Camorra
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