Word: berlin
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...Administration will boost refugee screening inside Haiti, and claims that its interception of boats just outside Haitian waters stems from a desire to save people from drowning. The Haitians' lawyers call this a "floating Berlin Wall" that bars refugees from all destinations. Why, the lawyers ask, can't the U.S. go back to screening the boat people to pick out those really fleeing persecution...
Powers tracks the elaborate and unceasing efforts of the American project directors to find out what was going on in Heisenberg's laboratories in Berlin and Leipzig. The great strength of his book is his ability to present precisely what the German team was doing and contrast it with the baseless but understandable American fears...
...TIME BERLIN'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT handed down its decision on Tuesday, Erich Honecker had become an object more of pity than of wrath. He was frail, 80, and ravaged by liver cancer that German doctors say will kill him within six months. Prosecution under such circumstances "violates respect for human rights," the court said in releasing him to join his wife Margot in Chile...
Broken and pitiful, perhaps. But Honecker was one of the hardest of the hard-liners who ruled the Soviet bloc before communism collapsed. As East | Germany's security chief, he supervised construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. He supported the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of neighboring Czechoslovakia. And newly publicized Kremlin documents show that Honecker wanted to do the same against Poland. A letter from Honecker to Brezhnev on Nov. 26, 1980, denounced the Solidarity movement and appealed for a Warsaw Pact invasion to prevent "the death of Socialist Poland." Brezhnev, embroiled in Afghanistan, refused -- a decision that...
London: William Mader Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...