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...Felix Dzerzhinsky School in Erkner, a suburb of East Berlin, is named after a Russian of Polish descent who founded the dreaded Cheka, the forerunner of the Soviet KGB, in 1917. Two months ago, half a year after the Berlin Wall fell, the teachers asked the town council to drop the name. They are still awaiting action, but they are patient and confident -- with some reservations. "It would not be proper to ignore our entire history," says Barbel Dudelitz, an English-language teacher who has yet to take down portraits of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in her classroom...
...Vietnamese here get so many motorcycles and we don't have any left to buy," says one pupil, prompting exclamations of "Fidschi!", a derogatory term for Vietnamese guest workers, from the back of the room. No one seems to know that the Vietnamese, under an agreement between East Berlin and Hanoi, get half their wages in the form of goods, including motorcycles and bikes, which they can ship to their families back home...
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Once the last American trip-wire battalion is gone, Germany will feel liberated in some respects but vulnerable in others. Then what? Will the government in Bonn -- or perhaps by then Berlin -- ask for help from Britain and France, which have their own independent nuclear deterrents? German pride would make that expedient unattractive...