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BERLIN – On Saturday, in the long night of the Sherpas, Angela Merkel was also late, and allowed herself a glass of red wine with a small group of journalists. When someone asked her if anything could be done for the Belarusian opponents in prison, the Chancellor said no. And he recalled a legendary figure in relations between East and West Germany: Wolfgang Vogel, the eminence gray who was negotiating to free the political prisoners of the GDR leader Erich Honecker.
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