Trial off
BERLIN (Reuter) - A Berlin court dropped its demand Erich Honecker, the former East German leader, to return to Germany from Chile to attend the final session of his manslaughter trial. A justice ministry spokesman said the judge had scrapped the trial's next session after deciding that Honecker's ill-health would stop him from attending.
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