Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Developments are now unforeseeable," said West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who interrupted a six-day official visit to Poland to fly to West Berlin for a celebration. "I have no doubt that unity will eventually be achieved. The wheel of history is turning faster now." At the square in front of the Schoneberg town hall, where John F. Kennedy had proclaimed in 1963 that "Ich bin ein Berliner," West Berlin Mayor Walter Momper declared, "The Germans are the happiest people in the world today." Willy Brandt, who had been mayor when the Wall went up and later, as federal Chancellor...
...analysis of the progress blacks have made in other contests, and Lance Morrow's account of his return to the grass roots of Prince Edward County, was our cover story until Thursday afternoon. But then came the stunning announcement that East Germans be allowed to travel through the Berlin Wall and would be granted freer elections as well. Bonn bureau chief Jim Jackson called me to urge that we change the cover, but my fellow editors and I hardly needed to be persuaded. Our twelve- page cover treatment on East Germany includes a vivid pictorial record of this emotional moment...
...West Germany was the goal of reunification, but even conservative leaders there were privately saying as recently as six months ago that this was a theoretical aim, not an immediate one. In January East German leader Erich Honecker said he could envision the 100-mile barbed barrier around West Berlin that was the grotesque symbol of ) Germany's division remaining in place for another century. Few would have challenged that prediction...
...summer long John Kennedy had brooded, waiting for Nikita Khrushchev to make good on his threat to get rid of "the bone in my throat" -- partitioned Berlin. But he had not anticipated what would happen on that warm August afternoon in 1961 when he set out from Hyannis Port, Mass., on the yacht Marlin loaded with family and his favorite picnic dish, fish chowder...
...with Clifton and in silence rode to his house. "Why in hell didn't we know about it?" he blurted, not expecting an answer. "What can we do?" he asked, turning to Clifton. "What can the military do?" Clifton told him that out of some 40 contingency plans for Berlin, he could not recall a single one dealing with a wall being built between the Soviet and Allied sectors. In fact, there was not much he could...