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...case with other East German newspapers. Junge Welt has lost more than half its 1.6 million subscribers, and collapse is imminent. Berliner Zeitung is a takeover target of powerful West German publishing houses. Regional newspapers from Leipzig to Rostock are in similar straits. "During the past few months, we were able to do what we wanted for the first time in our careers," says Oschmann. "We had freedom that we never had before. But it won't last...
Vacationing in the northern industrial city of Rostock last month, Egon Krenz decided to attend a soccer match. The outing may have been business as much as pleasure: as the Politburo member who handled youth affairs, Krenz also oversaw the country's sports programs. Soon after Krenz settled into his seat, an announcement blared over the public address system that the politician was in the stadium. Cheers and applause? Hardly. The fans booed lustily...
...150th of a series of 10,000-ton freighters to East Germany's own state-controlled shipping company, VEB (for Volkseigener Betrieb) Deutsche Seereederei (The People's Own German Shipping Enterprise). The Wismar yards launched a 20,000-ton Russian passenger ship, the Shota Rustaveli, and Rostock's Neptune yards sent another 4,000-ton freighter, the 112th during the past eleven years, down the ways. And 1967 looks to be another banner year...
...disease first showed up in the port city of Rostock fortnight ago, was traced to a shipment of butter imported from Red China. Muttered one stricken East Berliner: "It's a typical disease of the Wall. Before the Wall went up, we could at least buy green vegetables in West Berlin, but all winter long we got practically no vegetables, and when this dysentery bug appeared, we had no resistance...
...these well-treated East Germans arrived in Casablanca on the East German cruise ship Fritz Heckert, 23 of the honored passengers and a ship's officer defected by wandering off into the city's winding alleyways. The captain flashed word of the escapes to his headquarters in Rostock, got back cabled orders: INTENSIFY IDEOLOGICAL WORK ON BOARD. But stepped-up propaganda lectures were no solution; when the Fritz Heckert anchored in Tunis a few days later, two more passengers and the ship's doctor jumped ship...