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DATE: THURSDAY, June 14, 1990                   TAG: 9006140211
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: EAST BERLIN                                LENGTH: Short

GERMANYS COOPERATING IN TERRORISM ARRESTS

German officials in the East and West teamed up to capture the second top leftist terrorist suspect in a week, and news reports on Wednesday said more such arrests were expected.

West German authorities hailed the joint effort that led to the arrest of 46-year-old Inge Viett, and East Germany's interior minister called it an example of "success in German-German cooperation" following decades of enmity.

Viett's capture and the June 6 apprehension of another suspect, Sussanne Albrecht, represent some of the biggest successes against West German terrorists in years.

The East German minister, Peter-Michael Diestel, also promised to investigate the extent to which his country's former Communist government - particularly its hated secret police - had harbored West German terrorists.

by CNB