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Proceeds From Berlin Wall Released: The German government agreed to release more than $1.2 million earned from selling chunks of the Berlin Wall. The money from the wall, now largely demolished, had been earmarked for a social and cultural trust in reunited Berlin, but Bonn had complained that the cash disappeared into government coffers. Pastor Martin Ziegler, the trust chairman, had campaigned since November to make the Finance Ministry release the money.
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