Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...published in the next three years, will compile Goebbels' later writings. They cover the remaining war years right up to May 1, 1945, the day Goebbels and his wife killed their six children and then themselves rather than surrender to the Red Army as it swept through Berlin...
...thousand adult-education courses (with the emphasis often on adult), the Esalen Institute, perched on the windswept cliffs of Big Sur, Calif., along one of the loveliest stretches of unreal estate in the world, has long been the Platonic model of an Aquarian think tank. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, it has also become a symbol for the beauty, and something of the folly, of the peculiarly American belief that perfection is just a day away...
...clear that he still deeply distrusts Moscow. "While talking about reforms at home," he said, "the Soviet Union has stepped up its efforts to impose a failed system on others." He charged Moscow with "indiscriminate bombing and civilian massacre" in Afghanistan and challenged the Soviets to tear down the Berlin Wall and "show some glasnost in your military affairs" by publishing an accurate defense budget...
...Hess's case, the cage will also vanish. The four wartime Allies announced last week that Spandau would be demolished to keep it from becoming a shrine for Nazi sympathizers. Britain, which administers the sector of West Berlin that includes Spandau, plans to build a supermarket and an entertainment center on the site. The new facilities will cater to the 4,000 British service members and their families whose presence in West Berlin remains one of the legacies of Hitler's thousand-year Third Reich...
...Karajan, the dominant conductor of the postwar generation. Now 79, he is debilitated by a series of illnesses and must clutch a special railing as he makes his way to the podium. Those looking for clues to music's most hotly debated question -- Karajan's eventual successor at the Berlin Philharmonic -- find Salzburg an ideal place to begin speculation...