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...groups marched, the Communist TV cameras inadvertently gave the show away by panning slowly across thousands of empty seats. After that, embarrassed East German Communists gave up live TV coverage of the Khrushchev tour, and set about organizing a monster windup rally in East Berlin's Marx-Engels Platz that would give their Russian master a Red-hot sendoff...
Symbol of Failure. One day last week, the coffinmaker stood before a crowd in Potsdam's Platz der Nationen. At 60, he is a sturdy, thick-bodied man, with thinning brown hair and dark eyes that dart busily above pouches of crow's feet. A mustache shades his upper lip, and a goatee bobs from the point of his chin in disarming capriciousness. It is much like Lenin's goatee-a comparison Walter Ulbricht has long encouraged, for most of his life he has dreamed of becoming Germany's Lenin, the triumphant father and leader...
Behind the grey façade of the House of Unity in East Berlin's Karl Liebknecht Platz sits the Politburo of 14 men who rule East Germany on orders from the Kremlin. From their conference room last week came pronouncements which launched a new and cunning Soviet maneuver in the cold...
Early one morning last week a man approached a taxi driver in West Berlin and asked to be driven to the Senefelder Platz in the Soviet sector. The driver demurred, until the man offered a bonus of 20 marks ($4.76); then he consented. On the way, the passenger leaned forward and dropped a carton of U.S. cigarettes on the front seat. No sooner had the car stopped at the Senefelder Platz than two other men jumped in and seized the passenger, shouting: "At last we've nabbed you, you American cigarette racketeer." Driver and passenger were hustled...
Goodman started out his activities with a visit to the "House of Youth" on the Alexander Platz, where he was questioned by officials of the F. D. J. (Free German Youth). He was told he would be screened and could come back the next...