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Social media has changed our lifestyle and how we use internet today. We use internet on a daily basis and for nearly every purpose. Internet is used for a variety of purposes like if we have to find something, or if we have to order food, or if we have to contact our friends and socialize with them. There are a lot of websites available for social media interaction and each has its own unique features.
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With this feature trending many Pinterest-like websites are being introduced which follow the same design layout. It offers a comprehensive information on a lot of subjects and let users choose form them. A single page contains much more links then a simple design layout. The use of card based layout offers higher functionality and much more choices to choose from. This type of layout is trending because of the ease of usage of it and a clean look.
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Online Software Library First, to the point of this post. We are now developing a software productivity library on the Structuralist.Net. You are invited to submit freeware programs created in any format. We are set up specifically for Spreadsheet, MathCad, VBA and even Programmable TI or HP calculators (my latest interest). Please send your submittal to me at admin(--nospam--at)structuralist.net. Include a short paragraph, describe the features of the software that I can post to the forum - including your personal information for appropriate credit. Please make sure that your files are in Zip format. Structuralist.Net Weekly Newsletter I may be overstepping my welcome by posting messages to the SEAINT Listservice announcing services and forum posts on the Structuralist.Net. Information is being added to our web services and discussion forums on a daily basis. In order to keep up, we will be sending out a weekly Newsletter to those interested in receiving it. If you are interested in receiving notification of the features, Editorials, uploads and services that are highlighted each week, send an e-mail to News(--nospam--at)structuralist.net with your name and e-mail address and we will add you to the distribution list. We are appreciative of SEAINT for allowing posts from the Structuralist.Net with not so much as one note of disapproval. Storage Space Needed The Structuralist.Net is running out of storage space on our Web Host (Verizon) server. We would appreciate any offers of storage space that you might allow. We need between 20 and 40 megs of space to store downloads that will be linked to the Structuralist site. At this time, the discussion forum software does not allow downloads from a separate server so the files must be accessible through an HTML or Hyperlink on the forum post. The Structuralist.Net is not yet ready to post paid advertising as the Hit rate only about 120 people per day. Once this grows, we will seek banner ads to help defer the cost of the web hosting service. Until then, if anyone can donate some server storage, please send me a not at admin(--nospam--at)structuralist.net and we can arrange upload privileges. Authors needed! One of the things that amaze me the most is that the Structuralist.Net is a discussion forum with almost no participation in discussion. However, the information posted to the board by engineers who have submitted opinions and editorials have a high rate of hits from readers interested in what they have to say. The same holds true of our Software productivity tools. The Wide Flange Spreadsheet posted today had more than 60 reads in less than six hours. These include downloads. If you have something to say, we have the forum for your opinions. Email your submittal to me or post it directly to the discussion forum and I'll highlight it in our weekly newsletter. If you have information to report - News from CUREe, NAHB-RC, or progress from other professional association we will be happy to publish it. Simply send it to me at admin(--nospam--at)structuralist.net and I'll be sure to see it gets posted. Sorry about the inconvenience. My apologies to those of you who logged on to the Structuralist.Net discussion forum today and were rejected or had problems registering. We are upgrading our software and updating the website. In the process, I inadvertently disconnected the registration feature. Also, I admit to being a poor programmer. One of the nice feature of the discussion forum is a point and click text format feature that is a separate "Hack" written by a PERL Programmer in Norway who uses the handle "doG". Although he is talented, his Hack was written for a previous version of the discussion software. Another use of the software modified the hack to work with the version one step down from mine AND I, in my infinite wisdom of PERL programming, attempted to modify the support files to run the routine. Not only did my board crash, but about 40 other boards who downloaded my modification crashed as well. So much for my days as a programmer - we are back online and I provide my apologies for the inconvenience. Please visit the Discussion Webpage by following the link on the Structuralist.Net Professional page located at: http://www.structuralist.net/professional.htm At the left, click the button that indicates Discussion. Here you will find some of the latest discussions and Software Productivity Tools available for download. Regards, Dennis S. Wish, PE The Structuralist Administrator for: http://www.structuralist.net AEC-Residential Listservice admin(--nospam--at)structuralist.net
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The row this week among the top brass at J. Sainsbury shows that, far from being dull, grocery retailing is a game played for high stakes. The disagreement at Sainsbury over a trading statement broke out even before the company's chairman and chief executive had taken up their new jobs.
The row this week among the top brass at J. Sainsbury shows that, far from being dull, grocery retailing is a game played for high stakes. The disagreement at Sainsbury over a trading statement broke out even before the company's chairman and chief executive had taken up their new jobs.
Sir Peter Davis, who moves from chief executive to chairman on Monday, appears to disagree with Justin King, who is due to take the chief executive's chair. Sir Peter wanted to talk up the outlook for the group. Mr King, a former executive at Marks & Spencer, is said to have urged greater caution.
And well he might: Sainsbury has been losing market share to competitors including Tesco and especially Asda. The latter, owned by the US giant Wal-Mart, overtook Sainsbury as the UK's second largest grocer last year.
Consolidation has reduced the number of players in food retail, and also the investment opportunities.
Since William Morrison bought Safeway, the sector consists of just three quoted, "pure" supermarket groups: Morrison/Safeway, Tesco and Sainsbury. The London Stock Exchange includes Somerfield in its food and drug retailer category, but the company is now branding itself more as a convenience store company, competing in the high street rather than the out-of-town superstore market.
At the other end of the business, the upmarket retail chain Waitrose is expanding, and agreed last week to buy 19 stores from Morrison. At a cost of £158m, it is the largest ever acquisition by John Lewis and gives Waitrose a valuable bridgehead in the north. This will increase Waitrose's capacity by 20 per cent. But, as part of the John Lewis Partnership, Waitrose is effectively employee-owned and not open to outside shareholders.
The UK's second largest supermarket company is now Wal-Mart's Asda. Adventurous investors could look at buying Wal-Mart shares on the New York market, but investing in Wal-Mart represents a very different risk profile than investing in the UK retail sector.
Sainsbury, with 35 per cent of its stores competing directly with a Safeway branch, could bear the brunt of a new price war. And that war might not be far off. According to research by analysts at Merrill Lynch, Tesco and Asda broadly tend to track one another in price terms. Morrison's original stores, mostly in the north of England, follow a similar price strategy.
But Safeway and Sainsbury are consistently more expensive to shop at. Merrill Lynch tracked a basket of 3,000 groceries across the UK supermarket sector and found that Asda and Tesco were cheaper than Safeway on 89 per cent of their goods, and cheaper than Sainsbury on 74 per cent. The bank estimates that prices at Safeway are some 10 per cent higher than Asda's or Tesco's; Sainsbury is around five per cent more expensive.
Morrison has firm plans to cut that gap. The company has already announced that it will slash prices on 4,300 products in Safeway stores over the next few weeks. This will be driven by cost savings from the merger. Morrison estimates that buying synergies from the larger business will save £215m.
If other supermarkets move to match these prices, it will be good news for shoppers but not necessarily for investors. Morrison could be looking at cutting its gross margins by as much as five per cent, according to Barclays Stockbrokers. And Merrill Lynch calculates that if Sainsbury were to bring its prices down by five per cent, it would cost £650m, or almost a year's pre-tax profit.
The very public disagreement at the top of Sainsbury supports the view, held by many City analysts, that the company is now the weakest of the mainstream supermarket groups.
Tesco has a very strong war chest, as it raised £810m last year in the market. And Asda can call on both the financial might and the buying power of its American parent to ensure it competes with Morrison/Safeway on price.
"There is a huge overlap between Sainsbury and Safeway, and with Safeway now in the hands of a price-driven operator, Sainsbury's pricing strategy is dangerously exposed," says Simon Proctor, retail analyst at the stockbroker Charles Stanley.
But short-term price wars are not the only issue facing the UK's food shopkeepers: there is also the issue of longer-term strategy. The grocery business is effectively split along two lines: range and price/quality.
"There are two different business models," says Tony Shiret, a retail sector analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston. "There is the mixed model, based on clothing and non-food. That is the Wal-Mart model in the US, and what Tesco and Asda are doing. Tesco is about a third of the way through a programme to double its number of hypermarkets to 120. Then you have the more focused food retailers, such as Morrison."
The mixed retailers can draw on their fast-growing non-food businesses, where margins are more generous, to support price cutting in their food operations, should they need to. The more food-focused retailers will find this more difficult.
The food-focused retailers also face added competition at both the high and the low end of their markets. At the low end, the so-called hard discounters, such as the foreign-owned Aldi and Netto, compete almost purely on price, with stripped-down outlets and packing cases ripped open and placed straight on the shelves to emphasise the no-frills approach.
At the upper end of the market, John Lewis Partnership's Waitrose and Marks & Spencer compete on quality. As a result of the recent strategic activity involving the supermarkets cautiously exchanging assets, CSFB has put an underperform rating on Sainsbury while it expects on Tesco and Morrison to outperform their rivals.
Investors might be deterred from putting money into Morrison right now because, despite strong results announced this month - profits for last year were up 13.2 per cent to £320m - there is still uncertainty about the costs of the Safeway deal. This leaves Tesco as the front runner, but much of the good news could already be in the price. Its shares have risen 41 per cent over the year; Barclays Stockbrokers describes the company as "the darling of the sector".
In fact, Tesco is increasingly the main reason for investors to consider the FTSE food and drug retail sector at all. "The attraction of the sector is the attraction of Tesco," says Richard Buxton, head of UK equities at the City fund manager Schroders. "One reason for being in the sector is the might of Tesco, marching further into non-food retailing."
Tesco's success at selling anything from electronic goods, to clothes and financial services is worrying retailers far beyond the supermarket sector.
And, despite the fact that competition rules make it unlikely that Tesco could expand its store portfolio dramatically, analysts still expect the company to produce organic growth, and to embark on smaller, tactical acquisitions. Tesco, unlike Sainsbury and Morrison, also has substantial business interests outside the UK.
"Tesco is not a cheap share, but it is not expensive given the momentum within the business," says Mr Buxton. As the company continues to expand, by extending stores and adding new lines, profits could rise still further.
But not everyone at Schroders is filling their trollies with Tesco stock. According to Mr Buxton, the fund manager's value team are buying supermarket shares, but they are buying J Sainsbury.
THE ANALYSTS' VIEW: 'Tesco's going in our trolley first'
Sainsbury, brokers say, faces a difficult time if a new price war does break out. Of 14 brokers listed on Sainsbury's own web site, only one has a positive recommend- ation to buy the shares.
The City is also cautious about William Morrison, suggesting that the company might find that the Safeway takeover will be more expensive than the retailer anticipated. Merrill Lynch says that rebranding Safeway could cost as much as £130m more than Morrison has set aside. Charles Stanley also has worries: the broker downgraded Morrison from "accumulate" to "hold" on news of the merger. The stockbroker arms of the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein also downgraded Morrison, from "buy" to "hold", this month.
Among the quoted players, Tesco remains the City's favourite. The company's shares were upgraded last week by Goldman Sachs, from "in-line" to "outperform". The stockbroker Charles Stanley's stance on the company is "buy".
Investors looking to buy into the retail sector could, though, also consider one wild-card alternative. Marks & Spencer is not classified by the markets as a food retailer, but food represents a significant part of its business. In 2002-03, M&S expanded its operations with 19 more food-only stores under the Simply Food banner, which operates almost exclusively out of national rail stations.
Despite its ups and downs in the last few years, Barclays Stockbrokers likes the share; CSFB thinks that Marks and Spencer will outperform the market, although the bank cautions that general retail - the home sector for M&S - is predicted to do less well, attracting an "underperform" rating.
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Bruce R. Hopkins practices in the field of nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. His clients include charitable and educational organizations, associations, colleges, universities, hospitals, other health care providers, religious organizations, business and professional associations, and private foundations. Many nonprofit organizations retain Mr. Hopkins as general counsel; others use his services as special tax and/or fundraising counsel.
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Bruce R. Hopkins has served as an expert witness in over 30 cases.
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Principal, Bruce R. Hopkins Law Firm, LLC, Kansas City, MO
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The Tax Law of Charitable Giving (5th ed. 2013, 2015 supp.)
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Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Law Dictionary (2015)
Tax-Exempt Organizations and Constitutional Law: Nonproift Law as Shaped by the U.S. Supreme Court (2012)
Bruce R. Hopkins Nonprofit Law Library (e-book) (2013)
Nonprofit Governance: Law, Practices and Trends (2009) [with Virginia C. Gross]
IRS Audits of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Policies, Practices and Procedures (2008)
Starting and Managing A Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide (6th ed. 2013)
The New Form 990: Law, Policy and Preparation (2009) [with Douglas K. Anning, Virginia C. Gross, Thomas J. Schenkelberg]
Private Foundations: Tax Law and Compliance (4th ed. 2014, 2015 supp.) [with Jody Blazek]
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Nonprofit Law for Colleges and Universities: Essential Questions and Answers for Officers, Directors, and Advisors (2011) [with Virginia C. Gross and Thomas J. Schenckelberg]
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You will truly enjoy preparing meals in the kitchen which features custom, solid wood cherry cabinets, granite counter tops, marble floors and stainless steel appliances. Enjoy your meals at the breakfast bar, dining room table or on your private balcony with its incredible ocean and beach views.
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The beautifully furnished master bedroom has an incredibly comfortable king-size bed with luxurious bed linens, a large walk in closet and a huge window with plantation shutters which overlooks the ocean. It also features a newly remodeled, gorgeous bathroom with a large walk-in marble shower.
Ocean Harbor South is a gated community with plenty of parking. The clubhouse offers a huge flat-screen TV, books, puzzles and board games for your use. There is also an exercise bike and elliptical machine available for your use. There are community activities like bridge and bingo that you might enjoy. The adjoining pool area is large with community gas grills, a wonderful heated pool, an outdoor shower, and new mens and ladies restrooms.
We are located in the heart of the Treasure Coast, 10 minutes to Vero Beach and less than 10 minutes to downtown Fort Pierce. The region boasts pristine beaches, some of the best fishing in the U.S., and is known as the sailfish capitol of the U.S. There are many golf courses nearby, along with shopping, great restaurants, theaters, museums and spas all within a 15 minute drive. If you enjoy biking, there are paths all along the island.
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Property Type
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- On floor 8
- 1050 sq. ft.
House Rules
- Max. occupancy 4
- Children Welcome
- Non Smoking Only
- Pets Not Allowed
Accommodation Type
- Vacation Rental
- Guests Provide Their Own Meals
- Wheelchair Accessible
Bedrooms: 2 Bedrooms, Sleeps 4, Beds for 4
Bathrooms: 2 Bathrooms
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- Television
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- Air Conditioning
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- Elevator
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- Living Room
- Coffee Maker
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- Refundable Damage Deposit $500
- Cleaning $150
$100 non-refundable HOA application fee, returning guest $50. Reservation deposit of $500 is due to lock your reservation and converts to a fully refundable security deposit at check-in. 50% of the total rental rate is due 90 days before check-in and the remainder is due 60 days prior. Monthly rentals only.Sorry, no pets allowed.
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Year Purchased: 2005
About the owner: Kevin and I are both originally from the New York area and bought the condominium to escape the harsh winters. Now that we have moved to Chicago, we appreciate it even more! We never tire of the fabulous ocean views and truly enjoy our walks on the beach. Now that we have completely remodeled the condo it's like going to a luxury, beach front hotel. We try and get down there as often as possible.
Why the Owner Chose Fort Pierce, FL, USA:
We choose Hutcinson Island North because of its incredible beautiful beaches and numerous public parks. We really enjoy both downtown Vero Beach and downtown Fort Pierce both of which are with-in a 10-15 minute drive. We also liked the fact that other popular Florida cities, i.e., Daytona Beach, Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, and Orlando were within 1.5 - 2 hours. We both enjoy golf and there are several driving ranges and courses nearby. Basically, with the beach at our door step, great restaurants nearby and golf right around the corner it's perfect for us. We also have friends and family that enjoy fishing and they swear that we have the best fishing in Florida!
The Unique Benefits at this Condo:
We both love being out on the balcony. Whether it's reading the paper and having breakfast while watching the sun rise over the ocean or enjoying a glass of wine in the evening before dinner, it's just amazing! After 7 years, I'm still awe struck by the views. I still get a kick out of cooking or cleaning and looking up and seeing nothing but ocean, it's a bit surreal.
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Private 8th floor balcony with fantastic ocean views & comfy outdoor furnitu
Kitchen with new cherry cabinets, SS appliances, granite, and breakfast bar.
Comfortable living room with new leather couches and 42 inch flat-screen.
Living room with comfy leather sofa and love seat has 42 inch flatscreen TV.
Master bedroom with new furniture, a king-size bed and a great ocean view!
New luxury master bathroom with marble and granite finishes.
2nd bedroom features 2 twin beds and includes a ceiling fan.
Club house kitchen
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Dining room with table for 6 or eat at the breakfast bar!
View from the living room.
Master bedroom
2nd bathroom with handmade tile bath, new vanity with granite top.
Large clubhouse with kitchen and library.
Pool area with plenty of seating!
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I recently had to write up a report on what I was up to in Berlin this summer for a Corpus Christi College newsletter. I found it useful to organize my thoughts on the project I'm working on, but it might also be of interest for anyone lunatic enough to find the stuff I'm working on compelling. Enjoy …!
A Journey to Stasiland: Reports from Berlin Archives
I step out of the door of my apartment on to the streets of Berlin, on the hunt for secret agents. I walk past the bustling Turkish market on the shores of the Landwehrkanal, the tree-lined canal where Rosa Luxemburg met her end, and get on the U-Bahn. I arrive at Alexanderplatz, the former center of East Germany – massive train stations between alienating concrete plazas and space-age television towers – and get on the train headed to the East. Elegant 19th century warehouses since requisitioned as dance clubs pass by as we make our way through the gentrifying areas of the former East Berlin into neighborhoods like Karlshorst and, finally, my stop, Marzahn. Getting off on the platform and looking around, I feel like I'm in Moscow again: sterile microplazas and tram lines whizzing between crumbling socialist prefabricated buildings put up to house East Berliners in the 1960s and 1970s, all punctuated by the occasional Turkish kebab stand. Sometimes taking a ride on Berlin's public transit gives you hints of the layers of history that, together, make up Germany in the 21st century.
I was in Berlin this August with the support of the Palmer European Travel Scholarship, an award endowed by Mr MJB Palmer (CCC 1953-1956) in memory of Cecil and Phyllis Palmer. I'm a historian of 20th century Europe and Russia, and I was working on a project mostly concerned with the Soviet Union's development aid in Afghanistan in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. We are mostly familiar with the USSR as a country that invaded Afghanistan in 1979, leading to a conflict that annihilated the country and its people, but throughout much of the Cold War, the 1980s included, Afghanistan was one of the prime recipients of Soviet development aid to Third World countries like Angola, Yemen, Vietnam, and Nicaragua. Many of these countries were, like Afghanistan, subjected to foreign interventions, civil war, and state collapse after 1991, but I was interested in how the socialist world – so different and yet so similar to Western countries today – extended its models of 'economic development' and 'modernization' to willing Third World recipients. My research prior to this previous summer had taken me to Moscow, Dushanbe, and Omaha, Nebraska (home to an excellent archive of Afghan materials).
Why Berlin? While East Germany was certainly a junior partner to the Soviet Union, it had the most robust economy and most ambitious foreign role of any country in the Eastern Bloc, and the war in Afghanistan was no exception to this rule. East Germany played host to hundreds of Afghans visiting the socialist world on educational scholarships or military exchanges. It provided the regime in Kabul with funds, medical supplies, and printing presses. Most tantalizingly, the Stasi (the East German secret police, whose elaborate spying apparatus has been described by Oxford historian Timothy Garton Ash and Anna Funder in Stasiland) consulted with the KHaD (Khadamat-e Etela'at-e Dawlati, the State Information Agency), the Afghan equivalent of the Soviet KGB. Throughout the conflict in the 1980s, the KHaD carried out mass killings of thousands of Afghans, and tens of thousands of individuals were tortured in its jails. Since the archives of the KGB in Moscow were closed, I was intrigued by the possibility of reading through the Stasi's archives on its international links to see what I might find on this aspect of nation-building in Afghanistan. What precisely was the Stasi's role vis-a-vis the KGB and the KHaD in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and how to square the grim work of the Stasi's intelligence professionals with the idealism of Soviet and East German 'internationalists' who participated in activities more reminiscent of the VSO than Communist secret polices?
My research yielded a complicated picture of the role that East Germany played in the socialist world of which Afghanistan found itself a new, and often unwilling, member. The Stasi found itself managing a delicate balance between the values of 'socialist internationalism' (East German educational and professional exchanges to Kabul, Afghan army officers, translators, and economists coming to Berlin and many other smaller East German cities) and totalitarianism. On the one hand, East Germany along with the Soviet Union represented 'socialist internationalism,' a strange cosmopolitanism whereby the socialist world (minus a billion Chinese) stood in solidarity with decolonised Asia and Africa against the evil forces of imperialism (the USA and UK), fascism (West Germany) Zionism, apartheid, and Chinese 'adventurism.' It was an incoherent ideology, but one held enough attraction for many young, idealistic East German and Soviet citizens who thought that volunteering to build roads with Angolan Communists or train Afghan electrical engineers had something to do with preventing Eastern Europe from being destroyed by the NATO nuclear arsenal. Likewise, plenty of Nicaraguans, Afghans, and Vietnamese meritocrats leapt at the chance to leave the provinces for 'Europe'. The Stasi, like the KGB in the Soviet Union, had to reconcile this 'internationalism' with the need to monitor all everyday life for dissent and to protect the monopoly of 'uncivil society' on politics, the economy, and culture.
It didn't always work. For example, the DDR trained cadres of Afghanists – young, smart East Germans who had spent years studying Pashto and Dari – who studied abroad in war-torn Kabul every spring as part of an overall push to develop stronger ties between the two countries. Because of the closed nature of East German society, however, most would-be 'internationalists' were incredibly naïve about what awaited them in Afghanistan. Even had most of them been able to get around the security guards and tight regime imposed on them by DDR officials in Kabul (no walking in the streets, no talking with regular Afghans, no going to the bazaars), many students simply retreated into themselves. Others were more intrepid: Katrin Beck, a disillusioned child of East German diplomats who had grown up as an embassy brat in Saddam Hussein's Baghdad, professed love for the socialist state, but arranged to be schlepped across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border by mujahideen into what for her was the 'freedom' of Zia's Pakistan (and from there into West Germany). The Stasi, which monitored the students in any event, went berserk upon learning of Beck's 'veiled escape' (the title of a memoir she later wrote about the events) and managed to capture and execute several of her abetters while putting her family and friends in East Berlin on lock down.
'Internationalism' often meant a chance to escape to a 'West' for those going in the other direction, too. Hundreds of Afghan citizens came to East Germany to study, whether as army officers, translators, or specialists on women's rights. They wrote dissertations on topics from rural electrification to the relevance of Marxism-Leninism to the 'woman question' in Afghanistan, allowing us to get inside the heads of this abortive generation of Afghan Communists. However, while the generation of Afghan Communists that had seized power in 1978 – Babrak Karmal, Hafizullah Amin, Mohamad Najibullah, Sultan Ali Kishtmand, and others – had come of age as a mix of thugs and disaffected intellectuals from Kabul University, the new generation of Afghan Communists was far less impressive. For many of the students (who came disproportionately from Kabul, a persistent theme in Afghan modernisation projects), a trip to East Germany meant … an opportunity to escape to West Germany. Students repeatedly devised plots – hiking through the Harz Mountains or comandeering a boat across the Baltic Sea – to escape to the West, while those less peripatetically-minded often merely exported their inter-ethnic and intraparty (the Afghan Communist Party had two wings) feuds to dismal East German academies and boarding institutes. Fights, attempted murders, and suicides were common among the future leadership cadres.
The archives were disappointing for specific information on the relationship between the Stasi, the KGB, and the KhAD in Kabul, but a few documents provided clues. The Stasi provided consultants to the KhAD in Kabul to help run its prisons, supply its guards with interrogation tools, and monitor Kabul University for signs of unrest among the intelligentsia. Along with the KGB, it developed extensive knowledge of the mujahideen groups based in northwestern Pakistan and kept close tabs on Arab terrorists (including Osama bin Laden) en route to conduct jihad in Afghanistan. Working with the KGB in Moscow, it developed extensive information about Afghans living in West Germany, and foiled several terrorist attacks by Afghans on the Moscow Metro and East Berlin. The War in Afghanistan, in other words, forced an agency that had historically been concerned above all with West Germany and its own citizens into a more globally-minded institution, increasingly cognizant of the international nature of terrorism that has become, unfortunately, second-hand to Westerners today.
All of which takes me back to my train ride out to Marzahn. Sifting through the archival files, I had managed to obtain the name of the primary Stasi officer in charge in Kabul throughout the 1980s, a Mr Hartmut Kretschel (due to German privacy laws, most of the names of persons in the Stasi archives are blacked out). I had managed to find the entry of an 'innovation consulting' company he owned out in Marzahn, and after repeated unsuccessful phone calls to speak with him, I decided it would not be unwarranted to doorstep a man who had, in the course of his life, interfered with the private lives of so many. The consulting business turned out to be non-existent: tracking down the address led me to one of hundreds of identical concrete block buildings. I was about to ring Kretschel's doorbell when an old man stepped out of the elevator. I asked him whether he was familiar with Mr Kretschel.
'Ah, yes, of course!' he responded. Hartmut, he told me, and him went back for years. Of course he would be delighted to have a conversation on his 'service in Afghanistan.' He was, the neighbor said, even working on a book on it. I told him that I was American, and as our sardine can elevator took us up to the thirteenth floor of the Plattenbau, he told me how civil rights activists like John Lewis had inspired him as a young socialist activist in the 1960s. We approached the door and rang.
Kretschel opened up. I introduced myself as the neighbor vouched for my reliability and honesty – just a student doing pure scholarly research. A wrinkled and tobacco-stained woman in her fifties, in tights and a sport bra, stood behind Kretschel, squinting at me. But when the neighbor mentioned that I was interested in Afghanistan, Kretschel closed the door halfway.
'I don't like it, I don't want to talk about my time there', he said. 'He might be CIA, anyway, you know, probably a spy. Where's your student ID, anyway?' I had my passport and Bod Card ready, and presented them to the skeptical ex-agent. 'No, he said, not good enough. He must be a spy. Everything with Afghanistan and Pakistan these days, I don't want to talk.'
'Wait!' said the neighbor. 'But you had said' – and with that Kretschel slammed the door in our face. The neighbor was shaken. He knew Kretschel well and had always known him to be more calm, more mellow. This was the first time he had seen him react so vituperatively to questions about what he had done before the Wall came down.
Reflecting over a beer and Turkish kebab among the Plattenbauten afterwards, I reflected – as I often do now in the libraries of Corpus, Rhodes House, and the Bodleian – over my spy hunt and the story this piece of my research seeks to tell. I may not have been able to get Kretschel's perspective on the history he played a small role in, but after my journeys to the archives of the Stasi this summer, I have obtained important information that allows me to round out the story of the socialist world's engagement with Afghanistan and the Third World in the 1980s.
As a stroll through Marzahn will attest, the Berlin of those years was shabbier, scarier, and infinitely more self-congratulatory than the tentativeness that Berlin as capital of a reunited and economically robust Germany projects today. But it was also a Berlin that represented a quixotic mix of terror and cosmopolitanism. Just as Afghan exiles took up housing in parts of Marzahn in the 1980s, the leaders of Tudeh (the Iranian Communist Party) and Allendeist Chileans took refuge in East Berlin. But like the Afghan Communists, by 1989, they, too, along with their German hosts and Soviet masters, were historically passed by. Telling the story of how this global Third World Left went from supreme confidence that the world was going its way to horror at the speed of system collapse is part of my present calling as a historian. I hope to continue this project through future trips to the former Soviet Union, into archives that document in great detail the Soviets' efforts to nation-build, to build an Afghanistan that would collapse – but only after their own empire did.
I have since left 70s socialist television towers and Plattenbauten for dreaming spires; and present events suggest that future historians looking, like me, to write on the history of foreign folly in Afghanistan will have an embarrassment of documentary riches to draw on far greater than what I unearthed this summer in Berlin. But between hunts for former secret agents, the elusive tell-all archival document, and the best döners in Berlin, I profited greatly from this trip to Berlin, and will remain grateful to the Palmer Scholarship for enabling it.