Word: border
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatized the crisis so vividly -- or posed the hard questions for East Germany so immediately -- as the swarm of tents packed with would-be emigres overflowing the embassy compound in Prague. Last Tuesday, after the first freedom trains had rolled out of Prague, Honecker sealed off the country's border to Czechoslovakia, leaving East Germans isolated and caged once more. There were signs late in the week, however, that restrictions on emigration might be eased, according to West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher...
...avoid raising suspicions, Olaf, a roofer, returned to work after their midday decision. Marlies headed to the bank, where she withdrew nearly all their savings and converted just enough of it into Czech currency, she explains, "to allow us to pretend to border officials that we were going to Czechoslovakia for a short vacation." Because they were afraid to expose their plans even to friends and family, there was no one to bid them farewell at 9 that night, when they piled their children -- Christian, 5, Susann, 3, and Katrin, 9 months -- into their worn getaway car, a 1972 Fiat...
After a rail hop to Budapest and a $76 cab ride across the Austrian border, they reached Vienna, where they sent relatives a postcard explaining what they had done. From Vienna, the West German embassy sent them to a transit camp near Munster in the Federal Republic, where Olaf was quickly offered a roofing job in nearby Ochtrup. He finds the money much better than his old pay -- 18 West German marks ($9.50) an hour, vs. 5.4 East German marks ($2.85 at the official exchange rate). "The materials, equipment and technology are as different as night and day," says Olaf...
WORLD: Like storm-besieged dikes, the border barriers of East Germany spring one unstoppable leak after another...
...taxi owners to pay the $2,500 that it costs to convert a vehicle to natural gas. In Washington the American Gas Association calls the fuel "a viable option for fleets." One drawback: to carry the gas, vehicles must be fitted with bulky tanks. In a cross-border experiment, Canada's Ontario Bus Industries and Brooklyn Union Gas are testing two gas-fueled buses in Brooklyn...