Word: berlin
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...rhetoric remains to be tested, and it could prove inflammatory close to home. Gorbachev's popularity in Eastern Europe seems already to be backfiring against the regimes in the region -- and therefore against Soviet control. One of the most extraordinary images of the year came last month at the Berlin Wall. A group of East German youths had gathered in hopes of hearing a rock concert on the other side when armed police moved in. The youths took up a chant: "We want Gorbachev!" In effect, they were invoking his new thinking to mitigate the brutality of the old order...
Ronald Reagan expressed this sentiment in his Berlin Wall speech last month. "We welcome change and openness," said the President, "for we believe freedom and security go together -- that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace." Assistant Secretary of State Rozanne Ridgway, though skeptical about Gorbachev's rhetoric, is likewise upbeat about the consequences if his domestic reforms turn out to be successful. "I can foresee our entire postwar agenda being accomplished," she says, "since much of what we've been trying to do is to get the Soviet Union to become more open...
...quest for nuclear parity began with the limited test-ban treaty negotiated under Khrushchev, which led to the era of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and detente under Brezhnev. But Khrushchev's thaw turned out to be more rhetoric than reality. He crushed the Hungarian rebellion, built the Berlin Wall, deployed Soviet missiles in Cuba, directed Moscow's missile buildup and pushed a strategy of fostering pro-Soviet revolutions in the Third World...
...psychedelic '60s as Beatles music. Then, at the peak of his popularity in 1970, Artist Peter Max vanished from the international art scene and devoted the next 16 years to painterly experimentation and travel. But now Max is back. At Manhattan's Jack gallery last week, the Berlin-born artist opened a show of 30 gaily colored paintings and graphics under the rubric "Peter Max Celebrates America." Cheap the artist is not: his works on various patriotic themes are selling for anywhere from $12,000 to $50,000. So has Max joined the Establishment? "My art was patriotic...
Once they get to Europe, visitors will be entertained during the next several months by dozens of special events emphasizing culture, history and heritage. To mark its 750th anniversary, the city of Berlin is hosting a yearlong celebration of exhibitions, concerts, parades and street fairs on both sides of the Wall. Travelers in Britain can choose among such high- spirited events this summer as medieval banquets, historic re-enactments and major arts festivals...