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...Lengsfeld, who is standing as the conservative CDU candidate for Berlin's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district in the Sept. 27 federal election, faces a tough battle, as her constituency is dominated by the Green Party. So she figured the best way to win votes for her and for her party was to show off some of the CDU's best assets. (See pictures of East Germany making light of its dark past...
...spokesperson predictably declined to comment. At the CDU's national headquarters, a spokeswoman tartly said that "there was no prior consent for this issue." Party officials refuse to be drawn on the details. There's no denying, though, that Lengsfeld's womanly attributes have turned the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg into the most exciting constituency in the German capital and made the CDU the hot topic of the day. And that must give Merkel plenty to chuckle about...
...Facts. Ponderous shellproof bunkers, with antiaircraft, anti-tank and machine guns, have been built near Berlin's Zoo station, in the Friedrichshain workers' district, in the Lichtenberg factory area. A yawning anti-tank trench has been dug and tank barriers set up along the rear of Berlin's chief Government buildings...
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