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- WORLD, Page 64World NotesGERMANYThe Check Is In the Mail
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- The former East German Communists are now the Party of
- Democratic Socialism. Under either title, the Marxists are
- immensely wealthy, with total assets of $2 billion. Last week,
- acting on a tip that the party had sent $70 million to Soviet
- accounts in European banks, police raided its headquarters in
- Berlin and the homes of private citizens in several cities.
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- Party chairman Gregor Gysi, who called the raids a monstrous
- action, said they were carried out without search warrants.
- Otto Lambsdorff, head of the Free Democratic Party, a partner
- in the coalition government in Bonn, said he learned with
- "extreme regret" that prosecutors had not obtained the
- warrants.
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- Communist spokesmen said their party headquarters had indeed
- sent two payments totaling $63 million to Moscow in September,
- before German unification took place. The money, they said, was
- for support of communist students and upkeep on a youth
- training center in the Soviet capital.
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