Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time) slowly starving and dying of thirst. Yet now I am in the academic world of Cambridge finishing my Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics at MIT after being a guest of the East German state for two years--fourteen months at the top secret security interrogation prison MFS Hohenschonhausen (East Berlin) and eight months a la Solzhenitsyn at the work camp Bautzen near the Czech border...
...this moment she is said to be working in the kitchen of a work camp in East Germany where she has been for more than two years. Around noon I and my American friend Jack Strickland left Elizabeth's apartment in a VW camper bus to return to West Berlin via the crossing Checkpoint Charlie. We were run off the road by two carloads of eight plainclothesmen, presumably Secret Police, although they never identified themselves as they poured into the doors and windows of the camper and hustled...
...made numerous legal attempts to get married before ending up convicts in our yellow-striped uniforms in work camp. I had studied East German marriage documents with members of the East Berlin Academy of Sciences where I was working on my MIT dissertation, had even poured over the legal text on Marriage Law (Ehegesetzbuch). Elizabeth and I had gone to the socialist marriage bureau in the East, tried to get a proxy marriage in this country, and investigated getting married in the American embassy in Poland and having it validated by East Germany. But the biggest blow came...
Gerald A. Berlin, lecturer on Law, and Professors Everett Mendelsohn and William P. Homans Jr. co-signed the letter with Brode. None expects a quick bureaucratic windfall. "This provision of the '65 Act." Brode said, "has been applied to quite a few counties, especially in the South. But Washington has never sent registrars into a city or town within a country, as Cambridge is within Middlesex. We'll have to wait while the policy-makers decide if they're going to establish a new precedent with...
...long service to NATO, he has stressed the importance of détente. "The Soviet Union views détente as a permanent struggle short of war," he said earlier this year. "The allies must press for their own kind of détente-modus vivendi in Berlin and Germany, the reduction of armed confrontation in Central Europe, economic cooperation, and the freer movement of people and ideas...