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...with Tiedge are also believed to have followed him to East Germany. A 61-year-old woman using the false name Sonja Luneburg disappeared last August after serving for twelve years as secretary to Martin Bangemann, the West German Minister of Economics. Another woman living under an alias, Ursula Richter, 52, worked as a bookkeeper for a Bonn- based lobbying group for German refugees from Poland, Czechoslovakia and the U.S.S.R. She also vanished last summer...
When police searched the apartments of the missing women, they found several tools of the spy trade, including camera equipment that could be used to photograph documents and a briefcase with a secret compartment. West German authorities think that a third possible spy, a friend of Richter's named Lorenz Betzing, may have also fled eastward. She once worked for a firm that installed air conditioning at a military hideout built to serve as an emergency command center in case...
...were injured, and at least 1,500 were missing. The number of homeless in the capital hovered around 40,000. Elsewhere in the country, authorities listed about 300 people as killed or injured. Meanwhile the U.S. National Earthquake Information Service announced that the great quake registered 8.1 on the Richter scale, meaning that it had released three times as much energy as the previously announced 7.8 reading...
FOOTNOTE: *Each unit on the Richter scale indicates about a 30-fold jump in energy released. A quake of magnitude 2 is hardly perceptible; a 5-pointer can shatter dishes and windows; the great San Francisco quake of 1906 is estimated to have been an 8.3; and the most powerful quake ever recorded, off the Chilean coast in May 1960, reached...
DATE PLACE DEATH TOLL RICHTER...