There was no defender within five yards of Charalampidis as the ball was knocked back across goal and the Carl Zeiss Jena striker could not miss with a simple header.

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There are home-grown successes, too witness the transformation of a doddery East German combine, Carl Zeiss of Jena, in Thuringia, into the technology group Jenoptik, with world sales of DM2.6 billion and a first public share issue last month that was one of the hits of the season.

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