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...office of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Their defection came four weeks after Hans Joachim Tiedge, one of Bonn's top counterespionage officials, had fled to East Germany, along with three other suspected Communist agents. The Willner case prompted renewed demands for the resignation of Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann, who oversees Bonn's domestic intelligence agency...
...freed hostages -- ordinary men caught in extraordinary circumstances -- it was the commonplace aspects of daily life that really brought home their sense of freedom. Barczak, through tears, told reporters, "For me, freedom is just being able to do the everyday, ordinary things that you can do in America." Benjamin Zimmermann, the flight engineer aboard the hijacked TWA airliner, simply wanted to be alone with a few friends and relatives. When he arrived in his hometown of Cascade, Idaho, he told a welcoming crowd of more than 1,000, "TWA Flight 847 has finally landed...
...know "that the Lord has taken good care of us so far, and he has seen us through many trying times and will see us through to the end." At one point, a gunman fired through a window to keep other reporters and photographers away. Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmermann, 45, of Cascade, Idaho, sent greetings to his wife, children and father. Zimmermann, who is a Lutheran pastor, evidently had not been told that his father, the Rev. Elmer Zimmermann, had died in St. Louis four days earlier while attending a prayer vigil...
...gunman later requested that three toothbrushes, toothpaste and soap be sent to the plane for Testrake, Zimmermann and the third crewman, First Officer Phillip Maresca of Salt Lake City. Every day, the hijackers called the control tower for food and newspapers, as if ordering from room service. "What's for lunch?" they asked. "Cheese and jam sandwiches," the tower replied on one occasion. "Oh, no," the hijacker complained. "No more cheese and jam sandwiches. We want meat, something with meat." Airport authorities reportedly sent 80 portions of chicken and rice, 80 salads and 80 coconut cakes to the plane. Later...
...opera house's future, indications are a bit more promising. The opening week also saw the world premieres of a ballet by prominent East German Composer Udo Zimmermann and an opera by Siegfried Matthus, so perhaps Dresden's reputation as a home for new music will be at least partially restored. And Wolfgang Wagner, the composer's grandson who maintains the family shrine at Bayreuth, will direct a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in December. But what the Semper needs is what the rest of Eastern Europe's houses need: the free exchange of singers, designers and directors...