Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beijing, which figures to be a replay of Cairo. In June, he plans to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. John Paul has long spoken of mending the breach between the Roman and Eastern churches that became final in - 1054. The Berlin Wall, put up in 1961, came down 11 years into his papacy; undoing the effects of a millennium may take him a little longer...
Mayr began his academic career at the University of Berlin as assistant curator of the university's zoological museum...
While the worldwide arms market shrank to $31.9 billion last year -- less than half of 1988's $67.9 billion -- the U.S. share has skyrocketed. Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in late 1989, U.S. overseas weapons sales have totaled $82.4 billion, far ahead of the $66.8 billion in sales racked up by the rest of the world's nations combined. U.S. arms-transfer agreements in 1993 totaled $22.3 billion, eclipsing second-place Russia's $2.8 billion and Britain's $2.3 billion third-place finish. The Pentagon sponsored weapons sales to 86 nations; furthermore, Washington approved the shipment...
...Germans won. After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler, on the eve of his 75th birthday, is preparing...
...Clancy, author: "Close National Airport. Buy up the old Berlin Wall and plant it around the White House, but it might give the wrong impression. Move the White House to Cheyenne Mountain, headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense Command...