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Article: GERMAN ACCORD REACHED KILLINGS AT WALL MAY CEASE.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 9, 1987
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Byline: Combined wire services
As the two Germanys agreed Tuesday to intensify bilateral contacts in fields such as travel and sports, the Bild newspaper quoted a high-ranking West German official as saying East German leader Erich Honecker had lifted shoot-to-kill orders on escape attempts along the border.
At a news conference, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's chief of staff, Wolfgang Schaeuble, spoke in general terms about the discussions on the shoot-to- kill orders but did not comment directly on the report by Bild, a mass- circulation West German newspaper.
"There was a certain agreement to the extent that both sides want there to be no shooting ...