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...Berlin court handed East German lawyer Wolfgang Vogel a two-year suspended sentence for perjury, blackmail and falsification of documents in extorting money from emigrants fleeing to the West. Vogel had helped arrange the swaps of more than 150 spies in a three-decade career as an East-West intermediary during the cold...
...different approach to life. We drink more vodka, we appreciate music more, and we enjoy life more." --Berlin cafe owner and Russian emigre Lucinka Wichmann on the cultural differences between Germans and Russians...
...correspondent, Dunsmore reported on the Vietnam War and the fall of the Berlin Wall...
Opening night of the film festival, co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel to New England, features an Israeli film directed by Shmuel Hasfari entitled "Sh'chur," (1994, 100 min.) This winner of the 1995 Berlin Film Festival Special lury Award and six Israeli academy awards is a moving story about a Moraccan-Jewish family and their struggle to maintain tradition as modernity encroaches. We are shown mostly flashbacks of the 1970s-era childhood of Rachel (Hana Azoulay Hasfari) who has grown up to become a successful television producer. It is her story we follow, her struggle to escape...
...status of Sarajevo--considered by Holbrooke to be "the Jerusalem [the most intractable problem] of the Bosnian situation." Muslims want an undivided city to serve as the capital of both Bosnia and the Muslim-Croat federation. Serbs want to divide it into ethnic sections, possibly separated by Berlin-style walls...