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Bumping Along Karl Marx Boulevard

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910430
Author:Jim Hoagland

Name: Edgar Uher. Age: 48. Former profession: Diplomat for Erich Honecker's East German police state. Current status: Reunified German. A struggling entrepreneur who strives to join the capitalist system he spent a lifetime opposing.

"It has been wondrous," Edgar says of the past six months of whirlwind change. "But costly and painful for so many, too. I personally know of 10 suicides since unification. They could not adjust."

Edgar is at the wheel as we bump along Karl Marx Boulevard, which is likely to become Ludwig Erhard Avenue or perhaps Helmut Kohl Boulevard in the near future. ...

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