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East Germany, in fact, has deservedly been called Europe's Cuba because of the surrogate role it performs on behalf of Soviet overseas policy. Hundreds of millions of marks are poured into Viet Nam, for instance, out of ideological duty rather than any visible profit. In other countries, especially in black Africa, East Germany is obviously acting for its own political prestige and economic gain. For example, it is able to sell profitable quantities of manufactured goods, which are well made but simply not sophisticated enough for European markets...
...medicine and other supplies to Kabul, and have started to return to East Berlin a number of Afghan wounded. East Germany is reportedly helping the Kabul government revamp and upgrade its secret police apparatus, which has been in disarray since the December invasion. East Germany's assistance to Viet Nam dates back to the 1960s, and has multiplied ever since. Annual aid to Hanoi now totals tens of millions. East German assistance has also extended to Hanoi's client regime in Cambodia. Last month President Heng Samrin flew to East Berlin from Phnom-Penh to sign...
...even before the primaries. But Protestant Evangelicals have generally judged politics to be the devil's playground. This year they are plunging in, too, borrowing methods and single-issue zeal that religious and secular liberals have applied to racial equality, women's rights, the environment and the Viet Nam War. Their booming religious TV and radio circuit provides a "bully" pulpit for exploring moral issues. The effect on a close presidential race could be crucial...
DIED. Ton Due Thang, 91, figurehead President of North Viet Nam after the death of Ho Chi Minn in 1969 and the only man to serve as President since the country's 1976 reunification with South Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Hanoi. The choice of the southern-born "Uncle Ton," a longtime Communist Party faithful, as successor to the legendary Ho was a compromise designed to forestall a power struggle between more influential leaders in the party. While Ton's presidency was largely ceremonial in character, the power of the office is now likely...
...masters in the Washington intelligence establishment, who had originally set him up to trap Carlos and are now persuaded that he has turned. Bourne's deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet Nam, and he is all but convinced he was that man. It takes the tendresse of Marie and the cunning of Carlos to impel Cain toward his moment of truth, a shattering set piece that takes place on Manhattan's East Side...