Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BERLIN--A day after thousands of pro-democracy activists took to the streets in several cities, East Germany's Communist Party yesterday promised an "atmosphere of openness" to discuss critical issues...
...timing of Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to East Germany could not have been more awkward. On the 40th anniversary of the country's founding as a separate socialist state, the government in East Berlin found itself utterly humiliated. Like storm-besieged dikes, the borders of the country had sprung one leak after another, and thousands of refugees were pouring out. The routine anniversary visit threatened to turn into another diplomatic nightmare for the Soviet President, fraught with the kind of tensions and prodemocracy demonstrations that marred his trip to China last spring. It was Gorbachev's message of change, after...
...visit went off without any major embarrassments. Arriving at Schonefeld Airport on Friday, the Soviet leader was greeted with enthusiastic cries of "Gorbi! Gorbi!" but the reception remained calm. About 3,000 people gathered the next day in Alexanderplatz to demand government reform, the biggest such demonstration in East Berlin since 1953, but again the police managed to control the crowd. Officials were less successful in keeping the lid on demonstrations outside the capital: in Dresden and Leipzig violent clashes between protesters and police continued throughout the weekend...
Eppelmann, speaking in an interview with RIAS radio of West Berlin, said yesterday: "If the state does not send a clear signal soon and talk with the people about their wishes and needs, an escalation is possible. There is fear in the GDR [East Germany] that violence could soon reign...
Officials in West Berlin said Western tourists were allowed into East Berlin yesterday. They had been kept out since Thursday because of the anniversary celebrations...