Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy to understand why Walter Günther was nearly everyone's No. 1 choice to become West Berlin's next minister of health. A war veteran who had lost parts of both legs, he had risen through the ranks to a key position in the Social Democratic Party. More to the point, he was regarded as a first-rate doctor who ran a model geriatrics clinic; under him, in 13 years, the clinic's "cured and released" ratio rose from a dismal 3% to 33%. Patients were devoted to the charming German Czech...
...fled to West Berlin in 1950, within two years was directing a geriatrics clinic. Though he had been reading up on medicine, he was careful never to perform an operation; as hospital director, he was able to confine his medical practice to diagnosis. But his true talent lay in administering the clinic and giving instinctively deft psychological help. In his carefully chosen specialty, the attitude of aged patients is often far more important than actual medical treatment. The kindhearted amputee, who had himself obviously suffered so much, was just the man to understand and salve a patient's problems...
...obligingly disappeared. But in a country where papers, records, stamps and signatures are of surpassing importance, Günther's eventual exposure was perhaps not so surprising. It was the initial lie about his age that tripped him up. Shuffling old and new papers, a minor West Berlin bureaucrat noticed the seven year discrepancy in ages; after that, the tissue of Günther's life shredded away quickly...
...Interpol started in 1923, when European police opened an information-swapping center in Vienna. After Hitler grabbed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo spirited the records to Berlin, where wartime bombing later destroyed them. In 1946, Interpol was reborn in Paris to combat postwar crime. It got a charter, a general assembly and a secretary-general-currently Jean Nepote, 52, a French Sûreté Nationale commissioner on leave. One-third of Nepote's 90-odd staffers are French detectives; most of his $500,000 annual budget is paid in dues by member countries-98 of them, from America...
...centuries became accustomed to having cardinals-were elevated to the purple, along with 14 Vatican diplomats and curial officials. Archbishop Justinus Darmajuwana, 52, of Semarang, becomes the first Indonesian to sit in the college; German-born Archbishop Jose Clemente Maurer, 67, of Sucre will be the first Bolivian. Berlin's Archbishop Alfred Bengsch, who by choice lives in the Eastern sector of the divided city, will be, at 45, the youngest cardinal...