Word: berlins
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...fights, informers, subversion. They could not possibly become a real political force. What they did was very brave, but it couldn't work. We had to reach out to a more respectable, middle-aged generation, come out of this social ghetto, out of the church, out of Berlin and out of highbrow theories. We had to - appeal to engineers, doctors, nurses, teachers and bricklayers...
Finally, 30 of us came together on Sept. 9 near Berlin. I knew only a third of them. We worked out our manifesto. Our meeting coincided with the exodus through Hungary and the mounting demonstrations in Leipzig. It became a grass- roots movement. People were copying the manifesto everywhere. The regime could not have been overthrown by a party, only by this kind of popular uprising...
...commonwealth is the barrier, the wall," Romero-Barcelo said. "As the Berlin Wall prevented East Germany from achieving democracy, the commonwealth is the invisible wall preventing equality...
...since the conference is only three days long, members say they will spend the rest of their vacations touring Europe: some plan to visit Paris while most this year will be going to Berlin to see the dismantled Berlin Wall...
Fearful of a sudden devaluation of their hoards, East Germans last week staged a minirun on banks, withdrawing cash for shopping sprees. "People are buying whatever has value," said a salesclerk at East Berlin's Zentrum department store...