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- <text id=90TT1760>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: World Notes:West Germany
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- World Notes
- WEST GERMANY
- The Wages Of Death
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The case stirred chilling memories: a German businessman
- helps a mad dictator build a poison-gas factory. But the time
- was the 1980s, the accused Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen, head
- of a prominent chemical firm, and the dictator Libya's Muammar
- Gaddafi. "You knowingly delivered to Libya an installation
- suitable for the production of poison-gas weapons," said an
- angry Judge Jurgen Henninger at the end of the eleven-day trial
- in Mannheim.
- </p>
- <p> The executive admitted that he realized soon after accepting
- the $150 million contract in 1984, purportedly for
- pharmaceuticals and insecticides, that it was for making nerve
- gas. Still, he set up a dummy Hong Kong company and cleared $12
- million in profits.
- </p>
- <p> Because of glaring weaknesses in West German law, the only
- charges that could be brought were export-law violations and
- income tax evasion.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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