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<text id=90TT2814>
<title>
Oct. 29, 1990: World Notes:Germany
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 64
World Notes
GERMANY
The Check Is In the Mail
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<body>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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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</article>
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