Word: berlin
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...colored buildings on Berlin's Normannenstrasse that once served as headquarters for the Stasi, the East German state security service, may turn out to be the world's biggest molehill. As agents from the Western part of Germany search through the archives, they are discovering that over the years a burrowful of East German spies managed to infiltrate West Germany more thoroughly than Bonn had thought. Since unification day on Oct. 3, police have apprehended more than a dozen espionage suspects, and more arrests are expected. "The people in the West were foolish enough to believe that these files contained...
...agents might not like what they find in it," said Fischer. The archives also contain videotapes of individuals in sexually compromising situations, financial records of Stasi-front business enterprises, and electronic surveillance transcripts that could become evidence in criminal prosecutions -- to say nothing of destroying political and professional careers. Berlin officials reported last week that Stasi bugging devices even turned up in church confessionals...
News Editor for This Issue: Eric S. Solowey '91 Night Editors: John M. Berlin '93 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Suzanne Petren Moritz '93 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 Feature Editor: Joesph R. Palmore '91 Sports Editor: Micheal R. Grunwald '92 Michael D. Stankiewicz '92 Photo Editor: Michael Koehler '92 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos '92 Copy Editor: Beong...
...stroke of midnight on Oct. 3, a mammoth black, red and gold flag rose in front of the floodlit Reichstag in Berlin, signifying that 41 years after its division, there was again one Germany. "We want to serve peace in a united Europe and the world," proclaimed President Richard von Weizsacker...
...boring. When the cold war ended, we found no reason to celebrate. Instead we heated up the "war on drugs." What should have been a public-health campaign, focused on the persistent shame of poverty, became a new occasion for martial rhetoric and muscle flexing. Months later, when the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed throughout Europe, we Americans did not dance in the streets. What we did, according to the networks, was change the channel to avoid the news. Nonviolent revolutions do not uplift us, and the loss of mortal enemies only seems to leave us empty and bereft...