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President Ehlers listened to the delegates for 21 minutes, reported that they had "nothing new, absolutely nothing.'' On their way to lunch with the foreign press, the East Germans were showered with leaflets calling for an end to East German concentration camps and the release of Walter Linse...
By this stratagem, the Communist authorities came into possession of a taxi with West-sector markings and plates, which would attract no attention anywhere in free Berlin. Shortly after the fake pounce on the "cigarette racketeer," the taxi recrossed into the U.S. sector and stopped on the Gerichtstrasse, a quiet...
A woman on the street screamed; the driver of a light delivery truck started in pursuit. The thugs in the taxi fired several shots at the truck and sprinkled in their wake tetrahedrons (sharp-pointed military devices for puncturing enemy tires). As the kidnap car careened around the last curve...
Thick Dossiers. Of several hundred Communist kidnapings in West Berlin, this was the most flagrant, and it raised the angriest protests. Dr. Linse had been a painful thorn in the Red flank. The Investigating Committee of Free Jurists (TIME, Dec. 18, 1950) compiles thick dossiers on the crimes of East...