World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Official of Eastern Regime Put on Trial
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Harry Tisch, once among the most powerful East German Communists, went on trial in Berlin over defense objections that he was too sick to take the stand. The 63-year-old former Politburo official of the Erich Honecker regime toppled in December, 1989, is accused of misappropriating about $1 million for a hunting lodge and vacation compound near the Baltic Sea.
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