Word: bernd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Helmut Kohl ordered a key report to be removed from the evidence file. The exact contents of the report are unclear, but the testimony has deepened suspicions that Iran has been pressuring the German government to limit the Mykonos case to keep intelligence matters out. However, German intelligence chief Bernd Schmidbauer, the country's main liaison with Iran, has repeatedly denied that Tehran has exerted any undue influence or that the missing report contains crucial information. Iran's ambassador to Germany, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, "categorically ((denies)) any connection between Darabi and the Iranian state" and blames the killings on "assassins...
...root of the trouble, says Bernd Wagner, a former eastern police official and an expert on right-wing radicalism, is the severe dislocation of eastern society: in addition to unemployment, housing is in short supply, rents have tripled, crime rates have skyrocketed. "To say that solving the asylum problem will solve the far-right problem is complete nonsense," says Wagner...
...this mini-world -- four men and four women, all single -- were named last week. Ranging in age from 26 to 66, they come from the U.S., West Germany, Britain and Belgium, and include a physician, a botanist, a marine biologist and experts on engineering and agriculture. Says crew leader Bernd Zabel, who was general manager for Biosphere's construction: "The closer the day comes, the more excited...