Word: border
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PRAGUE--The Czechoslavakian government said yesterday it will begin dismantling its fortifications along the border with Austria, and lawmakers recommended abolishing some of the toughest laws used to crack down on dissent...
Government spokesperson Marcel Jansen said the Interior Ministry was asked yesterday to start immediate removal of "technical equipment" along parts of the Czechoslovak-Austrian border. Such equipment includes concrete pylons linked with barbed wire and some electronic wire to detect trespassers...
Jansen refused to specify when and exactly where work on the border would start, saying it was likely to begin near the Slovak capital of Bratislava, a one-hour drive east of Vienna...
...Hungary started dismantling fortifications along its border with neutral Austria, its only point of contact with a Western country...
Czechoslovakia also has a long border with West Germany, but Jansen made no mention of action along that border...