WORLD IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Police Raid Former Communist Offices

Berlin police, acting without a search warrant, raided the headquarters of the former East German Communist Party and spent six hours combing for evidence that the party embezzled $67 million and sent it to the Soviet Union. However, a Berlin prosecutor said the raid turned up no such information. Officials of what is now known as the Party of Democratic Socialism and of the Free Democratic Party, junior partner in the new German government, protested the police action. Separately, a special judicial commission has begun an inquiry into charges of corruption and misrule against Erich Honecker, former East German leader.