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Following Lorenzen's flight, five other secretaries were unmasked as likely East German agents. West German police arrested C.D.U. Secretary Ursula Höfs, 34, in Bonn and Maja Zietlow, 26, a travel agency clerk, in Hamburg. Shortly thereafter, Inge Goliath, 37, a secretary working for C.D.U. Foreign Policy Spokesman Werner Marx, left her office complaining of a stomach-ache-and turned up on the Communist side of the wall. The next day Christel Broszey, 31, the secretary of C.D.U. Deputy Chairman Kurt Biedenkopf, asked to leave work early for a hairdresser's appointment. She never returned...
...Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering World War I. He was traveling in Germany in 1937 as Hitler was preparing for his conquests. As vice chairman of the World War II U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, he assessed the hellish aftermath of the raids on Dresden and Hamburg. He studied the fire bombing of Tokyo and was among the first Americans to stand in the scorched nuclear wasteland that had been Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He remembers staring at the tiles that had bubbled from the atomic heat...
...suspects eluded the dragnet. Johannes Koppe, 47, a Hamburg nuclear physicist and his wife Hannelore were gone when police arrived; they had apparently been alerted by a message on an illegal short-wave radio that was found in their apartment. Reiner Paul Fülle, 40, an accountant for a Karlsruhe plant that recycles nuclear fuel, was caught by the Bundeskriminalamt, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI. But when the lone agent assigned to drive Fülle to jail reached the prison and got out of the car the prisoner, who unaccountably had not been manacled, leaped...
Bernard Wagner Hamburg...
...Tengelmann is not shopping for cheap hamburger and canned corn to ship back to Germany. Erivan Haub, 46, the hereditary sole owner of the company, noted that he saw in A & P "an opening to the U.S. market where Tengelmann experience can be put to profitable use." Haub, who trained with the Chicago-based Jewel supermarket chain, promised to stay out of day-to-day operations and hinted, to the delight of A & P directors, that he might supply much needed capital. A full hands-off policy is neither likely nor desirable. Noted one U.S. food-chain executive in Hamburg...