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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: anti-nuke questions - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 11:20:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  2 11:20:29 1983
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 >>                                            In East Germany peace groups
 >> have been meeting in Churches to question the present arms race and the
 >> Soviet desire to station retaliatory missiles in East Germany in
 >> response to US deployment of Pershings.
 >>  
 >>			    tim sevener
 >>			    pur-ee!iuvax!isrnix!tim

I'd like to corroborate that.  I spent last year in West Germany and the
papers were full all year long of celebrated cases of East Germans who
lost their citizenship or were imprisoned for their peace movement
activites.  Most of them had connections both to the Protestant church and
to the West German peace movement.  It is true that the pro-Soviet West
German Communist Party is trying to capitalize on the peace movement by
keeping its visibility high, but its numbers are small and it isn't taken
very seriously.  Most people in the movement in both halves of Europe
seem to be aware that neither NATO nor the Warsaw Pact wants to see a real
peace movement flourish in its own territory.
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Prentiss Riddle
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