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...York, Iverson was one of the first eyewitnesses to describe the scene to an anxious U.S. TV audience. Meanwhile, Wynn and Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt lined up an interview with Egypt's new leader, Hosni Mubarak, and Correspondents Roland Flamini and Jack White arrived from Bonn and Nairobi to profile the assassins and follow the funeral preparations...
...setting was pure John le Carré. Alerted to the story, a crowd of journalists waited under the trees outside Bonn's University Clinic, separated from the hospital by a cordon of green-uniformed policemen armed with submachine guns. When a nearby police helicopter started its engine without warning, the newsmen broke toward the aircraft in a dead run, hoping to catch a glimpse of the passenger inside...
According to Western diplomats in Bonn, three additional East German spies were included in the deal. One was Renate Lutze, a former secretary in the West German Defense Ministry, who was convicted on espionage charges in 1979. The others were not identified. Plans had also been made for three more Communist spies, now held in France, Denmark and South Africa, to be swapped last week, but arrangements with the governments involved were not completed on time...
...return, the East Germans agreed to release 43 West Germans jailed on catch-all "treason" charges-unjustly, according to the Bonn government. The plan also calls for East German authorities to issue exit visas to some 3,000 of their citizens who want to join relatives in the West. But for this the West Germans reportedly have to pay extra: a total ransom of about $45 million...
...successor, Helmut Schmidt, vowed repeatedly that Guillaume would serve his full 13-year sentence, and many West Germans still believe he should have done so. But the official attitude began to change as Guillaume's health deteriorated. Earlier this year he was moved from Rheinbach prison, outside Bonn, to a hospital for treatment of a kidney disorder and high blood pressure. In the end, the Bonn government decided that this was the best time for his release. As a West German parliamentary leader put it last week, "If we had waited any longer, the market value of this...