Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the cold war broke out, the American, British and French zones were merged to form the Federal Republic of Germany, while the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic. But the Allies retained military authority over Berlin as well as the right to base troops and conduct military maneuvers in the Germanys...
...most striking symbols of four-power rule was the guarding of Nazi war criminals at the Spandau prison in West Berlin, where the four countries rotated guard duties every month. After Rudolf Hess, the last prisoner, died in 1987, the prison was demolished. Now the World War II victors will again have a role to play in determining Germany's destiny...
That ride may be the magic elixir. Even in his contemporary office, surrounded by two chunks of the Berlin Wall and power photographs, Reagan gets almost poetic when he talks about rising in the bright mountain sunlight with Nancy...
...would think that Heinz Lyscik, director of an East Berlin cabaret famous for its risque pillorying of the former political order, would be overjoyed at the fall of the Communists and the prospect of unification with the West. Imagine: no more hassles with the censors, complete artistic freedom, new crowds from the West flocking to his place, Die Distel. But Lyscik is more worried than cheered. Under the Communists, he notes, "we got 13 marks per ticket in subsidies. Tickets cost patrons only 1.50 marks. Now we are already up to 4 to 8 marks, and we don't know...
Fearful of a sudden devaluation of their hoards, East Germans last week staged a minirun on banks, withdrawing cash for shopping sprees. "People are buying whatever has value," said a salesclerk at East Berlin's Zentrum department store...