Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Berlin, several thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the Lutheran Gethsemane Church for the pro-democracy vigil, West German media reported. "Police have shown restraint so far," radio and television said...
Earlier yesterday, 18 Lutheran Church leaders issued an appeal in East Berlin calling on East Germany's communist government to approve broad democratic reforms and urging all sides to refrain from violence...
...Rainer Eppelmann, a Lutheran pastor in East Berlin, said the doctrinaire regime must "talk with the people about their wishes and needs...
...BERLIN--Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched and shouted "We Need Freedom!" in Leipzig yesterday during the largest prodemocracy rally in East Germany since a 1953 workers' uprising, witnesses said...
Protesters also held a vigil in East Berlin to demand democratic reforms after a weekend of demonstrations across this hard-line Communist nation...