World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Official of Eastern Regime Put on Trial
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
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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