Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev ended his first visit to the United States and headed towards East Berlin for talks with Warsaw Pact allies, Reagan addressed the nation from the Oval Office. He said they had made "dramatic movement" on arms control and vowing to press ahead with his Star Wars program...
Roberts, who was assigned to a post in West Germany when he defected to the Soviet Embassy in East Berlin, told The Associated Press two weeks ago he was prepared to go home to face trial on charges of desertion...
...slyest devices seem cliched. Although the show's political anthems and music- hall satires throb with emotion, its love ballads are mostly lame -- a weakness that has been heightened by Joe Masteroff's miscalculated rewrite of his own book. Clifford (Gregg Edelman), the American novelist who arrives in Berlin as the Nazis are coming to power and through whom the story is told, is now unmistakably homosexual. His affair with the hoydenish singer Sally Bowles (Alyson Reed) has no chance of changing his orientation. Thus his fate no longer rests in her unsteady hands, and when she aborts what...
...were in favor of the trip. But like Kohl, many of them took no enjoyment in providing de facto recognition of East Germany, which Bonn still considers part of a single German nation. They were especially unhappy that such recognition was being awarded through Honecker, architect of the infamous Berlin Wall...
...until George, nearly two years younger, appropriated the keyboard with an amalgam of brashness and genius. The boy abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some free advice: "Stick to writing your own songs...