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...WILL AIR A SPECIAL ON THE KGB ALLEGING that YURI ANDROPOV, when he was the Soviet spy chief, knew where the body of Adolf Hitler was buried. Excerpts from a 1970 Andropov memo: "In Feb. 1946 in the city of Magdeburg ((G.D.R.)) . . . the bodies of Hitler, Eva Braun, Goebbels, his wife and children were buried . . . I would consider it expedient to remove the remains and destroy them by cremation...
...growing discontent in the East was manifest last week when more than 45,000 municipal workers in East Berlin, Magdeburg, Chemnitz and other cities staged two-hour "warning strikes" to support calls for higher pay, job security and preferential tax treatment in a united Germany. For the second time in two weeks, public transportation was crippled and garbage trucks blocked the entrances of department stores, as bus drivers joined sanitation workers, nurses and secretaries for rallies in at least 10 cities. The demonstrators complain that their salaries, which average about half those in the West, are not enough to cover...
...shopping spree had actually started months earlier. East Germans moved beyond the oranges and bananas, so popular when the Wall first came down, to consumer electronics and cars. Everywhere, new brand names began to beckon: Panasonic, Miele, Zanussi. Magdeburg became Marlboro country. The West German chain Spar opened a supermarket 40 km east of the border and stocked it with Western goods. East Berlin got its Benetton...
Monday's protests in East Germany took place in Leipzig, Halle, Schwerin, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Cottbus, Magdeburg, Dresden, Poessneck and East Berlin, according to the state-run news agency...
Lutz Gillert said he was demoted from chiefdoctor in a hospital near Magdeburg after applyingto leave five years ago and his son was rejectedwhen he tried to enter a university