East German Flies Out
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From Times Wire Services
WEST BERLIN — A young East German army cadet escaped to West Berlin on Wednesday by flying a single-engine plane across the fortified border, a British military official reported. The cadet, identified only as 18-year-old Tomas K., landed the plane at a British airstrip at Gatow, just across the border from the East German city of Potsdam.
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