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...rivalries in sports. Their final on Saturday, which Graf won 7-6 (8-6), 0-6, 6-3, went a long way toward erasing the memory of April 30, 1993, when Gunter Parche, a lunatic Graf fan, stabbed Seles in the back during a changeover at a tournament in Hamburg...
Andre Agassi showed a bit of his pre-Brooke Shields form at the quarterfinals of the German Open in Hamburg. Having lost to Spain's Sergi Bruguera on the court where Monica Seles was stabbed in April 1993, the top-seeded player made an unprintable remark to a spectator who complained about the quality of the match. "Are you going to get a knife and chase me now?" Agassi then asked. He was fined...
What about Monica Seles? A young woman with a passion for the sport of tennis, powerlessly taken away from her arena by a crazed fan. A fan stabbed her in the back at a tournament in Hamburg two years ago, and she has not been sighted in an event ever since. To further complicate matters, two days ago the man who caused her misery was set free after a second trial...
Many of Russia's Jews are flocking to Berlin and Hamburg, where Jewish communities once were, in search of opportunity. At the beginning of 1992 the official count for the Jewish community in Germany was about 34,000. Since then another 20,000 have arrived from the East, and more are expected at a rate of about 10,000 a year for the foreseeable future...
...campy) physical re- creation of the new Greater Germany, he suggests it in small, swift strokes. Tour buses carrying Western reporters on their first visit since the war roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also an ad for the Beatles; those Hamburg clubs apparently survived.) The country is repressive and regimented, but the "Heil Hitlers" have grown routine and less convincing; the bureaucrats are cynical and restive. The SS and the Gestapo are at odds, like the FBI and the CIA during Watergate. Police officers (among them Peter Vaughan and Michael Kitchen...