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Hughes Danbury had preserved the null corrector in the exact position that had been used to grind and polish the mirrors in the early 1980s...
...They just come in, look around and walk out," observes Ingrid Mundel, a clerk at AMA, the main clothing store in Furstenwalde, a tire-making town of 35,000 citizens located 22 miles from the Polish border. "People are checking prices before they buy. Right now business is very slow...
...Felix Dzerzhinsky School in Erkner, a suburb of East Berlin, is named after a Russian of Polish descent who founded the dreaded Cheka, the forerunner of the Soviet KGB, in 1917. Two months ago, half a year after the Berlin Wall fell, the teachers asked the town council to drop the name. They are still awaiting action, but they are patient and confident -- with some reservations. "It would not be proper to ignore our entire history," says Barbel Dudelitz, an English-language teacher who has yet to take down portraits of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in her classroom...
...their presence worthy of comment. "Living as a Jew in Germany is , just like living in America," says Alex Kozulin, 31, a Russian-born pianist who came to West Berlin via Israel twelve years ago. "I don't feel I have any enemies." Heiner Ulmer, 40, the son of Polish concentration-camp survivors who settled in Bamberg after the war, is more emphatic. Says the high school teacher: "I'm a German. I was born here, I studied here, all my friends are German...
While most East Europeans welcome the torrent of Western investment, they often have mixed feelings about the changes that it brings. Some fear that the capitalist invasion may replace communism with a new and more subtle form of economic domination. Says Richard Gordon, a director of the Massachusetts- based Polish American Business Education Foundation: "There are still doubts in many people's minds about selling off parts of their national patrimony to foreigners...