Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BERLIN--Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev stepped up his courtship of Western Europe yesterday saying he would support disbanding the Warsaw Pact and NATO alliances...
...speech to workers in East Berlin, the Soviet Communist Party general secretary said Moscow was ready for "a simultaneous disbanding of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, or, for a start, their military organizations...
...remarks were reported by East German television. The state-run network filmed Gorbachev's speech in a machine tool factory in a suburb of East Berlin and translated his Russian words into German...
Western diplomatic sources said Gorbachev's repetition of the proposal dovetailed with appeals he has made to Western Europe from East Berlin in the past few days...
...looks like this, too, is aimed across the [Berlin] Wall at the West Europeans," said one Western diplomat, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified...