Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open meeting in the East Berlin headquarters of the S.E.D.'s central committee, party member Friedrich Dreke, 39, charged that the leadership had enriched itself at the expense of the people and had run a "foreign currency mafia" with illegal sources of income. Declared Dreke: "What we need is a complete change of command in the party apparatus right up to the post of General Secretary...
Krenz made it clear that he would fight to hold on to his job. "I am here to stay," he told factory workers near East Berlin. "I didn't take over just to push for change for a few weeks." Krenz said he was ready for an "unsparing investigation" of the party's mistakes and transgressions. He and the beleaguered Politburo also took a first step toward some form of power-sharing by proposing round-table talks on reform with non-Communist parties and legal opposition groups; the agenda would include changing the constitution, which currently gives the Communists...
...halt speculation, Modrow announced strict customs controls on the borders with the West. But East Germany's monetary crisis is likely to worsen, thereby increasing dependence on the deutsche mark -- and West Germany. Bonn, in the meantime, is withholding its promised assistance until it is convinced that East Berlin will introduce concrete and irrevocable reforms...
Never mind the Soviet economy, Mikhail Sergeyevich; what have you done to the spy-thriller industry? Now that the Berlin Wall has started coming down, cold warriors are not the only ones whose smiles must seem a trifle forced. Spy novelists, like Pentagon budgeteers, need the Wall to make their fictions believable. What's a secret agent to do now? Set up a kiosk and sell FREIHEIT T shirts...
...with the border Vopos tossing flowers and grinning like Father Christmas, the Berlin Wall has suddenly lost the cachet it once had for spy writers. For Le Carre the timing of the Wall's decline as a cold war symbol is only slightly awkward. His latest novel, The Russia House, fails, unsurprisingly, to anticipate the collapse of the East bloc, but it does deal credibly with the slipperiness of glasnost and the refusal of U.S. hard-liners to embrace perestroika. Deighton, on the other hand, is caught embarrassingly short. Spy Line, his new novel, puts him five books into...