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...kill. Three others went on trial with Heinrich. Kuhnpast was given a suspended sentence because his bullets went wide. A third guard shot into the ground, and a fourth told colleagues to shoot only to apprehend; they were acquitted. Heinrich has expressed regret. But he is alive, and Chris Gueffroy, a 20-year- old waiter who only wanted to be free, is dead. Neither could have foreseen that Berlin's Wall would fall nine months later. But once again Germany is insisting that its people should have had a more acute moral vision...
...shooting of Chris Gueffroy, believed to be the last person killed while trying to flee East Germany, the border guards responsible were decorated, given bonuses, extra vacation days and a celebratory meal. Last week the four were put on trial in Berlin, charged with manslaughter. The proceedings are the first of their kind, and getting convictions will be no small task. The accused, say their attorneys, citing the Nuremberg defense, were just following orders...
...addition, Fish heard from his future customers. Portland Gas & Coke Co. President Charles Gueffroy flatly refused to sign a contract for San Juan gas until he knew the price. Complained Gueffroy: "We are on the expensive tail end of the pipeline...
Next evening the Mazama Club assembled in their Portland headquarters to discuss Varney's death. As they talked they discovered to their horror that another of their party, Russell Gueffroy, a Vancouver teacher and electrician, had not been seen since he had picked up his skis at the cache near Crater Rock and had wandered down the mountainside. They learned that his car was still parked near Mazama Lodge, that he had not reported for work Monday morning. Next day the Mazama Club trudged up Mt. Hood again with little hope of finding Russell Gueffroy-under 19 inches...
After a fruitless 24 hours, the party stumbled on Gueffroy's skis. By prodding with bamboo poles through the new surface snow, searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down to the crust to confirm their soundings. All that day and half the next they followed his confused, straggling steps deep into Sand Canyon...
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