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...pretty hard to stay motivated when you're facing a total blank in two months," he says. But at least now he can add language skills to the résumé he'll be passing around. With reporting by Bruce Crumley / Paris and Stephanie Kirchner / Berlin...
...With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner / Berlin and Bruce Crumley / Paris...
...will this take effect?" a voice from the auditorium demanded. Schabowski, after taking a quick look onto his notes through his frameless glasses, haltingly replied: "That is ... as far as I'm aware ... it is right now, immediately." (See TIME's photos of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall...
...that citizens could apply for permission to travel abroad, a procedure that would take some time, and while the rule was not supposed to come into effect until the next day, the majority of the gathered press had no doubt that Schabowski's statement meant the end of the Berlin Wall. The news quickly spread and brought thousands of people to the border crossings where they demanded to pass. The border guards eventually gave in. (See TIME's cover story on the wall's fall...
...TIME's photos of Barack Obama's campaign visit to Berlin...