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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stiller's secret-police credentials had cleared him through an inspection by East German guards at the platform gate. Ten minutes after the train arrived, Stiller and his family got off at the Zoological Garden station, the first main stop in West Berlin. From there, waiting West German agents rushed them to Tempelhof Airport. An American military jet flew the three Frankfurt, where West German intelligence agents installed them in a safe house...
That was the end of Reel I. After debriefing Stiller, West German agents began rounding up suspects he had identified as spies who were supplying East Germany with information about the Federal Republic's civilian nuclear-power program and about disposition of West German and U.S. military units...
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, a notorious workaholic, took time off from preparing for the current budget debate to watch the show. So did Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl. In all, an estimated 14 million West Germans, plus 3 million people in areas of East Germany tuned in last week for Holocaust, the American-made fictional account of Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews. As nine regional television networks prepared to air the four-part docu-drama neo-Nazis torched an old synagogue in Essen and bombers demolished a television transmission tower near Koblenz and a telephone relay station near...
...when such "press tours" were inaugurated, only two of the 40 television writers came at their papers' expense. This time upwards of 60% of the more than 80 critics were listed on network master sheets as POWS, an ironic acronym for paying their own way. (For some East Coast publications the bill will top $1,500.) Pressured by the Television Critics Association, which was founded in 1978 to resist the industry's publicity steamroller, network representatives submitted to rigorous grilling. Explains the Pittsburgh Press's Barbara Holsopple, 34, the group's vice president: "We want...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat managed to hog the rug, but Gerald Ford didn't seem to mind not getting the full red-carpet treatment on his first visit to the Middle East. In Egypt, the former President stayed at the Aswan Oberoi along with another tourist, the Shah of Iran. Ford, accompanied by his wife Betty, also stopped off in Israel. "I came as a private citizen," he said, and hence felt little compunction about beating a hasty retreat from a dinner with Premier Menachem Begin. After all, Private Citizen Ford had a date to watch the Super Bowl...