A 45-year-old man from Communist East Germany swam the Elbe River to escape to West Germany, border police said Wednesday.
East Germany and West Germany appeared intent on avoiding a rupture in relations over Bonn's spy scandal.
A theater in Frankfurt will not perform a controversial play by the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder that has been denounced by Jewish and other groups as anti-Semitic.
Soviet leader Mikhail S.
The city is like an immense mastodon flywheel dressed in a hairy woolen sweater.
It was after this meet a year ago that Jens-Peter Berndt walked away from the East German swim team
Pacifist Roland Jahn, once jailed in his native East Germany for backing the Polish Solidarity trade union, went to prison Wednesday in West Berlin for his part in a peace protest.
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West German sources confirmed Monday that a major spy exchange will take place soon involving imprisoned Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky.
East German swimmer Sylvia Gerasch set a world record of 2 minutes 28.20 seconds in the 200-meter
An East German official derided President Ronald Reagan's hope that the Olympic Games could someday
West German writer Hubert Fichte died Saturday after a tumor operation, his wife Leonore said.
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl conferred Wednesday with Guenter Mittag, economics expert of the East German Communist Party's ruling Politburo.
About 100 teen-agers, many of them punk rockers, ran wild through part of Munich early Sunday after a rock bar closed, setting small fires, smashing store windows and battering parked cars, authorities said.
A 29-year-old East German man escaped to West Berlin by slipping past Communist border guards and swimming across a river, police said Thursday.
A bomb exploded early Friday in a West German government Third World aid office, causing about $125,000 damage but no injuries.
The West German Foreign Ministry said Sunday that a Hamburg businessman has been kidnaped in Beirut.
Hans Koch, a senior East German cultural official and member of the Communist Party's policy-making
State prosecutors demanded life imprisonment Monday for a 43-year-old West German described in
Three people were killed, five others were injured and two were missing after a gas explosion ripped apart an apartment building early Wednesday in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, police said.