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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Newly arrived East Germans at the Giessen, WestGermany, refugee reception center said yesterdaythey had been prepared to stay indefinitely inBonn's mud-filled embassy in Prague rather thanreturn home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Embassy Harbors E. German Refugees | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

Roberts, of Riverside, Calif., said in the past that he defected because he disliked military service and had put in "two years, two months and 28 days" when he left the Army base in Giessen, West Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWOL Army Private Returns From USSR | 11/5/1987 | See Source »

...animals with characteristics of both sheep and goats. Only one of them, however, had blood proteins from both species. That animal behaves like a goat and has even tried mating with female goats, but like another hybrid, the mule, its sperm are defective. At Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, West Germany, other embryo manipulators also reported producing goat-sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's a Geep | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...talk of war plays upon the fears of the young. "They feel like passengers in a car racing toward an abyss," says Horst Eberhard Richter, a professor of psychosomatics at the University of Giessen. "They have a desire to grab the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarming Threat to Stability | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...pond whenever it rains. At Fliegerhorst barracks near Hanau, 15 miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They repack drive shafts on the basketball court beneath a sign that reads NO DUNKING ALLOWED. At Rivers barracks near Giessen, nearly 3,000 soldiers are crammed into what was a Wehrmacht military prison during World War II. "The tip-off is that the barbed-wire-fence topping points in, not out," says an officer stationed there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Army of Self-Helpers on NATO's Front Line | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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