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...this was a prelude to a weekend of climactic demonstrations. On Saturday some 700,000 West Germans massed in four cities-Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart and West Berlin-in an act of dissent they hoped would mark a turning point in their nation's history. On that same day in London, upwards of 200,000 Britons marched through the streets to a rally in Hyde Park. In Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, Paris, Dublin, Helsinki, Brussels and Madrid, as well as in dozens of towns and cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, the worldwide peace movement stretched its legs and shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Weekend That Was | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...rallies under strict but peaceful control. As things turned out, the spectacle was impressive, though the total turnout was considerably smaller than the organizers had expected. Both police and protesters acted with restraint, and the whole affair at times took on the air of a nationwide picnic. In Bonn, the nation's capital and the main location of the weekend's activity, some 350,000 people streamed through the streets holding banners and here and there bobbing papier-mâché caricatures of President Ronald Reagan. Armbanded marshals kept the river of humanity flowing easily past empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Weekend That Was | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Once this dramatic gesture was completed, tens of thousands began streaming into the sprawling Hofgarten Park in the heart of Bonn for an afternoon of antimissile rhetoric. The main attraction was former Chancellor Willy Brandt, chairman of the Social Democrats. Brandt told the cheering mass of his countrymen: "In Germany and in Europe, we need not more medium rockets but fewer ones. So we say no to more nuclear missiles." Certain powerful people, he continued, "have got it into their thick heads that deployment of Pershing Us is more important than reducing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Weekend That Was | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...with small boats was abandoned because not enough craft showed up. In West Berlin, only 10,000 attended a demonstration in front of the city hall. But that ceremony would have been more impressive if thousands of West Berliners had not decided to join the far larger demonstrations in Bonn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Weekend That Was | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...West German defense expert and prominent Social Democrat, declared that "negotiations in Geneva will lose their meaning the minute the first new missiles are deployed." Honecker, meanwhile, sent a letter to Chancellor Kohl warning him of a "new ice age" in relations between the two Germanys unless the Bonn government strives "to put a stop to the arms escalation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Cold Winds and Heated Words | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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