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...Meeting at Telgte, Günter Grass...
...Pope's shooting brought one predictable result: security forces around the world began studying the case for lessons. "We are now analyzing the attempt on the Pope," says Günter Ermisch, a top security expert for West Germany. After the attack on President Reagan, Canadian authorities doubled the guard around Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; they now clear the doorways of Parliament for five minutes before he arrives or leaves. The Secret Service refuses to say what new procedures it has adopted to protect President Reagan, but security is clearly heavier than it used...
...MEETING AT TELGTE by Günter Grass...
Historical novelists commonly cast imaginary characters in real events. Author Günter Grass, 53, turns this standard formula on its head. The Meeting at Telgte teems with more than 20 German writers and literary figures, all of whom actually lived and worked during the 17th century. What these people did not do, how ever, is precisely the subject of Grass's novel. They did not meet together in 1647, near the end of the Thirty Years' War, nor did they sit down to discuss ways of uniting their ravaged father land through the power and the glory...
Inevitably, the fence has separated friends and families. "Eighty percent of our people have relatives over there," says Deputy Mayor Günter Burghardt of Rasdorf (pop. 1,700), gesturing at the town of Geisa (pop. 4,000) across the fence, less than two miles away. "Many were born over there, went to school there, or had jobs there. Now we have to look west, not east, for all that." Though Rasdorf and Geisa are in plain sight of each other, telephone calls between them take up to eight hours to complete, and getting from one to the other...