Word: berlin
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...dozens of spy organizations. East and West, continue trading lefts and rights in Berlin, the climate around them is changing. While applauding the Western underground's previous services against the Reds-which include everything from smuggling out scientists to sending anonymous warnings to East German authorities that their misdeeds are being recorded -Berlin officials and newspapers have begun to suggest that some of the spook groups are overdoing...
...West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, who regards much of the underground activities as "grownups playing cowboy and Indian." wants the Berlin senate to examine how to get "rid of certain undesirable activities in the twilight zone of political propaganda." The spook business is causing dissatisfaction in East Germany, too, but of a different sort. Dombrowski's boss, Major General Karl Linke, has reportedly been given the boot for letting Dombrowski get away...
...young Marek Hlasko, 26, most gifted writer of Poland's restless postwar generation, life in West Berlin was a succession of binges. Ever since he refused to return to his Communist homeland (TIME, Oct. 20), he had been lionized in Berlin's literary salons. His blond good looks and his unpredictable James Dean moods made girls eager to comfort him. In a surge of euphoria, Hlasko would cry: "Writing is a wonderful occupation, almost as good as drinking!" Or, cryptically: "I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom." Then depression would...
...friends thought he would be safer in Munich than in Berlin. He enrolled for German and English lessons at the Munich Berlitz school (he speaks no English, and has barely one sentence of German, learned by rote: "The censor understands nothing of love."). A U.S. foundation arranged an American visit for him; the International Rescue Committee helped him get a visitor's visa. His movie was about to open in New York...
Abruptly, Marek Hlasko returned to West Berlin, reportedly approached the resident Polish military mission to ask about returning to Warsaw. After dropping out of sight for a lost weekend, he surfaced at Tempelhof airdrome with a flight ticket to Tel Aviv and an Israeli tourist visa good until March. Landing in Israel last week, unshaven and fatigued, Hlasko holed up in an obscure hotel for 24 hours before joining up with Jan Rojewski, an old Polish friend who now lives in an Israeli kibbutz...