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East German prisoner exchanges resume as West payment grows
East Germany quietly restarts exchanging political prisoners for West German money amid international tension over Afghanistan. Bonn has paid about $20,000 per prisoner, with a first group of 30 arriving in the West and a reform allowing some dissidents to travel more freely until 1990.
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New York Times
East Berlin
Bonn Republic
Jurek Becker
West
Afghanistan
Wolf Biermann
Becker
Jacob the Liar
Lodz
Munists
Bonn
Egon Franke
Karl-Marx- Stadt
Saxony