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Horst Mahler, 89, Dies; Voice of the German Far Left, Then the Far Right

As a young lawyer and a Communist revolutionary, he helped start the violent Red Army Faction. Later, he went to prison as a Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier.

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Mr. Mahler in prison in 1978. He had been convicted of crimes as a member of the radical left-wing Red Army Faction, which he had helped found.
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Robert Alvarez, 76, Dies; Called Attention to Nuclear-Waste Safety

A self-taught expert, he spent decades working in both nonprofits and the government to expose problems in the production of atomic weapons.

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Robert Alvarez, left, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Jeffrey Patterson of Physicians for Social Responsibility in 2011 at a news conference in Washington about the accident triggered by an earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in Japan.
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