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- <text id=90TT1700>
- <title>
- July 02, 1990: World Notes:West Germany
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 02, 1990 Nelson Mandela:A Hero In America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- WEST GERMANY
- A Very Special Hobby
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Unification is proving to be a disaster for terrorists.
- Cooperation between East and West Germany has led to the arrest
- of nine suspected members of the notorious Red Army Faction.
- All were caught in East Germany. Last week the trail reached
- all the way to former Communist Party boss Erich Honecker, who
- is accused of personally giving safe haven to the terrorists.
- East German Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel said that
- Honecker and former Minister of State Security Erich Mielke
- knew exactly how the now disbanded ministry had provided R.A.F.
- members with false papers, jobs and protection.
- </p>
- <p> Diestel said that harboring terrorists was Honecker's
- "personal hobby." The former East German leader, recovering
- from cancer surgery, issued a stout denial of all the charges,
- insisting that East Germany "did its share" to combat
- terrorism.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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