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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
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<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>
</body>
</article>
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