The World - News from May 12, 1986
A former top adviser to East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph emigrated to the West. Hermann von Berg, 53, in the mid-1970s an economic aide to Stoph and a specialist in East-West economic cooperation, said on arrival in Cologne, West Germany, that he was given permission to leave East Germany. Von Berg applied to leave in August, 1985, after continued clashes with colleagues over the country’s economic system and the rigidity of Communist Party rule.
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