Word: berlin
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...Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" The demand was made by Ronald Reagan as the then President addressed West Germans at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. With Gorbachev's acquiescence, if not encouragement, the deed was done. Last week Reagan stood beside a three-ton chunk of the Berlin Wall, 9 1/2 ft. tall and 3 1/2 ft. wide, and called it "an unnatural, ugly, unwelcome, undeniable symbol of the oppression of communism...
...this time the former President was standing on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific Ocean in California's Ventura County. And he seemed pleased to accept the gift of the graffiti-splotched memento from East Germany's Berlin Wall Commemorative Group. The concrete block will greet visitors to the Reagan presidential library at the pleasant site 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The facility is scheduled for completion early...
News Editor for This Issue: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Night Editors: Jonathan M. Berlin '92 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Eric S. Solowey '91 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 City-State Editors: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Julian E. Barnes '93 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-91 Photo Editor: Michael F. Koehler '92 Business Editor: Paul G. Perez '89 Copy Editor: Sarah B. Kirshbaum...
While the vote was widely interpreted as a grass-roots thumbs-up for the rapid unification of the two Germanys, preparations for the funeral of the G.D.R.'s failed experiment in communism have only begun. To guide East Germany through the intricacies of unification, the triumphant conservatives in East Berlin must first build a government. Last week the CDU reached out to the Social Democrats, asking them to join a "grand coalition" in hopes of forging the two-thirds parliamentary majority required for constitutional changes...
Educated at the Huguenots' Gray Cloister High School in Berlin, where he studied the viola, De Maiziere had to abandon his musical career when he developed a neural impairment in his left arm. He then took up legal studies and eventually became known for his defense of conscientious objectors and other dissidents. Slight of build and speaking with a soft lisp, De Maiziere, 50, is a religious man who has never demonstrated an appetite for public life. But he answered the call when he was asked last fall to cleanse the CDU of the stigma it bore from decades...