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...cathedral has the oldest stained glass in Germany. An easy train ride from expensive Heidelberg is Würzburg, a city of baroque architecture and prized wines. Another good base is Rüdesheim, convenient to the Rhine and the wine country. A three-hour boat ride from Rüdesheim to Koblenz costs $15 in modern steamers with breath-catching views of castles at almost every bend. A double room in a decent hotel costs between $25 and $35 daily; a pension costs about $10 per person, with breakfast...
Willibald Sontag Koblenz, West Germany
...tuned in last week for Holocaust, the American-made fictional account of Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews. As nine regional television networks prepared to air the four-part docu-drama neo-Nazis torched an old synagogue in Essen and bombers demolished a television transmission tower near Koblenz and a telephone relay station near Münster. Newspapers carried debates on the accuracy of the series and whether a fictional version of Hitler's ultimate atrocity should be shown...
...German search for the terrorists has failed-at least so far-but police have collared 1,000 common criminals wanted on charges as varied as murder, rape, auto theft, burglary and dope peddling. In Koblenz, police raided a warehouse in search of terrorists-and surprised a gang of car thieves. At a roadblock in Hildesheim, a town 18 miles outside Hannover, police searched a car and found wigs, rubber masks and two pistols; the occupants confessed they were on their way to rob a bank. In the fashionable Grünewald section of West Berlin, a brothel operator griped about...
Despite that factor, the driving bans have grievously hurt some European businesses. Sunday revenues of German hotels and restaurants have dropped as much as 30% to 70% since Sabbath driving was forbidden three weeks ago. The picturesque villages on the left bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz look all but deserted of tourists on Sundays. The Swiss ski industry is suffering; after two carless Sundays, crowds are thin at the resorts, and there is no waiting on tow lines. Skiers who usually arrive by car seem to be spurning the doubled train and bus schedules that the government...