Word: border
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brazilian government, meanwhile, came up with development schemes of its own. In the early 1970s the country built the Trans-Amazon Highway, a system of roads that run west from the coastal city of Recife toward the Peruvian border. The idea was to prompt a land rush similar to the pioneering of the American West. To encourage settlers to brave the jungle, the government offered transportation and other incentives, allowing them to claim land that they had "improved" by cutting down the trees...
...this frontier town 120 miles northwest of the Hungarian capital, border guards gave only cursory checks to East Germans...
...first groups crossed, hundreds of others waited in their cars, forming growing lines at the main border crossings...
Once on the Austrian side of the massive border barrier, many East Germans jumped from their cars and danced with...
Interior Minister Istvan Horvath instructed the police and border guards to let East German citizens leave Hungary with their East German travel documents at any border point...