Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both correspondents found that the many East Germans they interviewed outside Berlin were friendlier-and far more talkative-than the uptight "press officers" in the capital. "Sometimes it was difficult to break away from their exemplary hospitality," says Nelan, who endured a four-hour tour of an alloy steel mill. Rademaekers met with more warmth than he had bargained for. "A heat wave was sweeping across East Germany," he complains, "and every window seemed locked up for the winter...
...year, when he became Bonn bureau chief. Rademaekers, who has served in most of the European bureaus of TIME since joining in 1959, got his first taste of East Germany more than twelve years ago, and has been back as recently as last summer for a retrospective on the Berlin Wall...
...East Germans are truly Germans in at least one other respect-their stolidly bourgeois preoccupation with food and comfort. Recently the East Berlin regime began a concerted effort to increase the quantity and quality of consumer goods. Since Honecker exhorted the party in 1971-"to increase the material and cultural standard of the people"-Neues Deutschland, the party newspaper, has been filled with glowing reports of consumer production and has chided factories that continue to turn out shoddy goods. Centrum, East Berlin's giant department store, now refuses to give full payment to state factories that deliver inferior merchandise...
...main streets of East Germany's major cities, like East Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee, are lined with imposing new shops and offices. But the Miami-modern architecture is wearying in its sameness; doors buckle, and elevators work erratically if at all. A few blocks away there are buildings still in ruins from World War II air raids...
...Germany's Communist Youth Movement, which he turned into a paramilitary organization. By 1950 he was recognized as one of Walter Ulbricht's chosen few. A few years later he took command of the secret police, and in 1961 he was given the responsibility of building the Berlin Wall...