Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Braving a cold winter rain, about 2,000 young people packed East Berlin's Evangelical Bartholomaus Church last week. The setting was a religious one, but the message was plainly political -- a prayer service to honor some 20 East German dissidents jailed last month for disturbing the peace and having "treasonous contacts." A few years ago, such a meeting would have been unthinkable in tightly controlled East Germany. But the glasnost breezes from Moscow seem to have emboldened a new generation to challenge the regime of Erich Honecker...
...hard because we have to get startedwithin two days," said Alexandra C. von derGablentz '89, who has attended Mt. Holyoke Collegeand Berlin University. "I think that in the fall,you have about two weeks to get settled...
...dance band called Bob's Combo belts out tunes in English, German and even Japanese aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise liner Sun Viking. The Polish five-woman ensemble Sabat was performing aboard the Achille Lauro when the Italian cruise ship was hijacked by terrorists in 1985. Nightclubs from West Berlin to Los Angeles to Kuwait are staffed with Polish and Rumanian chorus girls, strippers and "hostesses...
...explosion last April that wrecked La Belle, a West Berlin discotheque popular with U.S. servicemen, is still reverberating in Western Europe. The disco bomb killed two Americans and a Turkish woman and wounded 230 others; ten days later, following charges that Libya was responsible, President Reagan ordered bombing raids against targets in Libya. Last week West German police arrested Christine Gabriele Endrigkeit, 27, a native of West Berlin. She is allegedly an associate of jailed Jordanian Terrorist Achmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi, who has been convicted of bombing the German-Arab Friendship Society building in West Berlin a week before...
...that once belonged to the late White. The elders among the geese -- Arthur, the old gander, and Jezebel, the goose -- are often featured in Wiggin's Aesop-like bimonthly column. Once a "mover and a shaker," he steered the Washington Post's coverage of every crisis from the Berlin Wall to the Viet Nam War. No more. "You can't flatter yourself in the belief that you can leverage the world from the perimeter of Ellsworth, Me.," he says. "But I enjoy rural life a lot better than I do big cities. I'm at home in this environment." Happiness...