Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position may have proved to be stronger than Brezhnev had suspected. In recent months Brezhnev has somewhat softened his positions on Yugoslavia's independence, mutual troop reductions and diplomatic deals with the West; he has even personally forced the intransigent East Germans to agree to concessions in the Berlin negotiations. As a result, a number of disgruntled marshals and industrial managers have rallied round Podgorny, who has become the rep resentative of the extreme hard line within the Kremlin...
...Zehlendorf fire department, for example, can go to Steinstucken, and an electrician can enter to fix the refrigerator in the town's only grocery. Previously, both were barred. Steinstuckeners refused to apply for special G.D.R. travel permits to go to their jobs and classrooms in West Berlin and they now have West Berlin identity cards with "unhindered access" stamped on them...
...Cellar. Life is almost as nerve-racking for the 20 inhabitants of 125-acre Eiskeller, a farm community on the northwest tip of the city. Connected to West Berlin by a one-lane, 800-meter road, Eiskeller (Ice Cellar) belongs to the Spandau district in the British sector. The shoulderless roadway is so narrow that no gas or electric lines can be installed: though it is the coldest part of the city, petroleum for both light and heat must be trucked in. Nonresidents must travel the dirt road under British escort, because Vopos lurk just off the roadway in case...
Most of the exclaves are scarcely worth arguing about-unoccupied meadowlands and swamps or small farms too far into East Germany to be of much practical concern to West Berlin (see map). Two exclaves on the Havel River, Erlengrund (one acre) and Fichtenwiese (nine acres), are the sites of some 150 summer houses or cottages belonging to West Berliners. Homeowners can reach their property for a few hours' outing only through a heavy steel-plated door in the Wall. They must summon a Vopo by pressing a black plastic button beside the door. Then they must cross the sandy...
Isolated Field. The East Germans have their own small exclaves in West Berlin. There is, for instance, a triangular field between the Brandenburg Gate and West Berlin's Philharmonic Orchestra building that is cut off from East Berlin by the Wall. Correcting some of the problems would require the East Germans to move several sections of the Wall. Still, the secret negotiations made possible by the Big Four agreement offer hope that one day soon Eiskeller farmers will have electricity and Steinstuckeners will no longer have to spend three days acquiring permits to transport a piece of new furniture...