Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EAST Germans Swarm to Prague; 8000 Are Allowed to Cross Border...
...time the ban was removed, 5000 EastGermans had gathered at the West German Embassy inPrague. Special trains took the East Germans fromthe embassy to the West German border andthousands of others drove through Czechoslovakiain personal cars...
...least 15,000 East Germans had arrived in West Germany via Czechoslovakia by yesterday, West German border officials said. They came by special trains from Prague or drove their own cars to the border after learning of the new escape route. Schirnding was the closest border crossing for those using the new route...
...long will they keep coming? That you have to ask Mr. Krenz!" said Uwe Luetjhe, the federal border police duty chief...
...political obliteration. Only West Germans talk eagerly about the prospect of regaining through peace what they lost through war. For many of them, the question is no longer if reunification can happen; the question is how soon. The vision is for a new Europe that extends to the Soviet border and beyond -- with a united Germany in the middle of the emerging entity. Says Chancellor Helmut Kohl: "If the Germans say, 'We belong together,' then no matter how long it may take, in the end they will achieve the unity and freedom of Germany...