From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Klaus Barbey"s trial Article-I.D.: floyd.1190 Posted: Wed Feb 16 11:04:04 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 08:29:49 1983 References: watarts.1676 I suspect that the reason Klaus Barbie has come to trial is that there are Nazi hunters who chased him down. Also, Barbie isn't in a position of power; that puts him in a different category than Idi Amin, who has mercenary military support, if not national military support. I wasn't alive at the time, but how widely known was Barbie? If he was very widely known, I wouldn't think that Barbie dolls would have been so named. I never heard of him before. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491