51.  A decision about expanding a strike to other western German states would follow if no progress were made in negotiations.

52.  A flu wave in the German states of Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Thuringia was reported to be slightly higher than normal.

53.  A group within the PDS, the Communist Platform, is considered committed to the overthrow of the German state and is monitored especially closely by the security agency.

54.  A HBV spokesman said preparations are under way for limited strikes in the German states of Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin next week.

55.  A man opened fire at a store in the southern German state of Bavaria on Tuesday, killing at least one person, police said.

56.  A Saxony law, strict in comparison to most other German states, allows police to keep people in preventive detention for up to two weeks.

57.  A special high court defered a ruling late Wednesday that could decide a legal battle between the German state and relatives of Nazi atrocity victims in Greece.

58.  After the war, he ran a building company in the western German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

59.  Also on trial are three other men arrested after police raids to break up a drug ring operating in several German states.

60.  After the war, the copyright of the book was inherited by the German federal state of Bavaria.