The World - News from June 26, 1985
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A Paraguayan judge took under advisement a complaint seeking a nine-year prison term for Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld for slandering President Alfredo Stroessner. Atty. Gen. Clotildo Jimenez Benitez alleged that Klarsfeld, who is based in Paris, and a Paraguayan politician falsely accused Stroessner of shielding fugitive Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. International forensics experts last week identified a man who drowned in Brazil in 1979 as Mengele. The man had held Paraguayan citizenship between 1959 and 1979.
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