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WHEN Soviet troops swept into Berlin in 1945, they battered down the doors of the Brandenburg Prison. Among the prisoners freed was Erich Honecker, a tall, gaunt Communist who had spent most of the past ten years in solitary confinement. Upon his release, Honecker lost no time in joining the Ulbricht Group, a band of Moscow-trained Communists who had been flown to Germany by the Russians to organize a government...
Secret Protocol. The problem of Poland's ethnic Germans dates from 1945, when Silesia, East Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia, the former German provinces east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, were ceded to Poland at the Potsdam Conference. Some 9,575,000 Germans lived in the four provinces then; 7,330,000 have since left. In December, when West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse boundary in the Bonn-Warsaw Treaty, a secret protocol paved the way for the remaining Germans to leave...
...United Nations conference. It was commissioned by the original owners. of Dumbarton Oaks for their thirtieth wedding anniversary. It is a light, lively piece, charming and remarkably entertaining. The piece is particularly taxing on the brasses and woodwinds, and they performed beautifully. The Concerto deliberately parallels the third Brandenburg in many ways, especially in the opening theme and the three part violin and viola sections. But, although it parallels the Bach piece, it does not resemble it, nor is it based on Bach in the way that Lukas Foss's Baroque Variations...
Records aren't everything, though, as Faller will attest. He was tied Wednesday night by Rutger's Don Brandenburg-who was 5-1 agaisnt weak competition-for the first blemish on a 12-0-0 record...
...Faller, who entered the match with a spotless 12-0 record, jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but Brandenburg scored a reverse and an escape to go ahead 3-2. Faller escaped early in the final period to even the score, but he could not get the winning takedown...