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...interview, broadcast on April 16 in Germany, Ehrmann said: "The question concerning the travel law: that was no coincidence." He had received a "mysterious phone call," he said, from the "submarine" - a reference to the conference room of the East German state news agency ADN. Although Ehrmann in the interview didn't reveal the identity of the caller, he has since been identified as Gunter Potschke, general director of the ADN and a personal friend of Ehrmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin Wall: Was the Fall Engineered by the GDR? | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

Next we see the Degeneration-Xers, dressed in neon gereen adn black, successfully destroy and humiliate all their adversaries. They are cocky, obnoxious, and beloved by all. To them, pinning someone is not as important as hurting them, and their victory dance is a spectacle that every man should behold: with a chesty snort, they raise their arms and thrust them downward, forming an X over their groin. Their battle cry--part insult, part exhibition of their enviable virility--is unmistakable: "SUCK IT!" I'd witnessed it a hundred times on TV, but seeing it in person has an unexpected...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is the World Wrestling Federation spectacular theater or total trash? A WWF Die Hard's Account | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...killing spread, marchers turned out in towns throughout the country. Because of the government's total control of travel and communications, rumors often replaced information. East European news agencies such as Yugoslavia's Tanjug and, in the new world of glasnost, even Moscow's TASS and East Germany's ADN, became important sources of news. They reported that Rumanian army troops had joined in some of the protests, that more soldiers had been executed by the Securitate for refusing to fire into crowds, and that striking workers were threatening to blow up their factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughter In The Streets | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...point, the government seemed intent on depicting a mood of impending breakdown, as if trying to ensure its survival by convincing people that only the present leaders could keep blood from flowing in the streets. In a statement issued through the state-run ADN news agency last Wednesday, the government reported "growing indications of stormings of facilities and installations of the National People's Army." But no mention was made of where the assaults took place. In a separate appeal, from the army, generals warned that they would not permit disturbances at military installations and called on soldiers to fulfull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Out of Control? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...another development yesterday, ADN said that Manfred Seidel, the number two official in the government's Commercial Coordination office, had been arrested and was the target of a criminal probe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Krenz Steps Down; Replaced by Gerlach | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

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