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...been totally compromised, and their leaders are doing the White House's bidding. Obstruction of justice, not pursuit of truth, now seems to be the FBI's specialty. When the lid finally blows off, the media will have to account to the American public for their soft-pedaling. DAN WISMAR Wadsworth, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 19, 1997 | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...said 50,000 people rallied yesterday in Wismar, on the Baltic coast, demanding free elections and the end of the Communist Party's monopoly on power. Between 35,000 and 40,000 people also rallied in Nordhausen, near Erfurt, and another 20,000 demonstrated in Meiningen, it said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E. German Cabinet Resigns Amid Protests | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...largest-delivered a 12,300-ton freighter to the U.S.S.R., along with the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: On the Ways | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...miles from Georgetown, Negroes took up spears and pitchforks, began attacking Indians and burning their homes. A pregnant woman, mother of eleven, was killed by a spear thrust in the back, her husband was critically injured, and an Indian watchman on a sugar plantation was shot dead. In Wismar, 60 miles south of Georgetown, Negro bands burned close to 200 homes and killed four East Indians, including one man burned to death. British troops rushed in to disperse the mobs and escort 1,700 East Indians to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Guiana: Race War | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...government officials crowded the dock at Pôrto de Santana, a steamy little town on the north channel of Brazil's Amazon delta. Then up the river it came: Venezuela's hijacked freighter Anzoátegui (TIME, Feb. 22). On the deck stood a triumphant Wismar Medina Rojas, 28, and his eight fellow hijackers-all members of Venezuela's Castroite Armed Forces of National Liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hijackers Ashore | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

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