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...dismantlement of the hated ministry. In the Stasi's beige concrete former headquarters on East Berlin's Normannenstrasse, files lie in folders, binders, boxes and brown paper bags, stacked in five floors of rotating shelves a total of 125 miles long. Some papers are baled and tied with twine, some are scattered loose, some are stuffed unsorted into canvas bags. "We found letters we never received," said Gerd Poppe. "There were pictures taken through our window, transcripts of taped telephone calls. There was such a mass of information that it simply could not be evaluated...
That the puck went in was fortunate, according to Maguire. That its final destination was high in the twine was more deliberate...
...quick start is somewhat atypical of the Crimson, who had to rely on big comebacks to win its last two contests over Army and Penn. But yesterday, Harvard sophomore Chip Linehan stuffed a Tim Reilly pass into the Vermont twine just 28 seconds into the game...
...Harvard Co-Captain midfielder Perry Dodge fired a shot off the top post which made it just past Vermont goalie John Snyder, subbing for the beleaguered McCabe. Linemate and Co-Captain Mark Donovan put Harvard up, 8-0, to start the second period, firing a high shot into the twine...
According to investigators, all four bombs appear to have been made with smokeless powder, easily purchased at any gun store, and packed with nails that spray like shrapnel when the devices explode. All were wrapped in brown paper and twine with neatly typed red-bordered labels. All carried plausible return addresses. Three were deposited in mailboxes in Georgia (the fourth had a smudged postmark) with more postage than necessary, apparently so that the sender could avoid a face-to-face transaction with a clerk at a post office counter. The package intended for Vance may have been sent...