Word: brandenburg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Berlin, he fled with his mother to the West in 1949; sneaking across the border, they stumbled, just short of West German territory, into a Soviet soldier -- who let them go. Standing outside his house today, near a sunny Swabian vineyard, Hoell muses about going home sometime to the Brandenburg marsh and lake country...
...Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" The demand was made by Ronald Reagan as the then President addressed West Germans at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. With Gorbachev's acquiescence, if not encouragement, the deed was done. Last week Reagan stood beside a three-ton chunk of the Berlin Wall, 9 1/2 ft. tall and 3 1/2 ft. wide, and called it "an unnatural, ugly, unwelcome, undeniable symbol of the oppression of communism...
...cohesive fashion. Cut from the 1980 U.S.A. hockey team's "miracle on ice" to a shot of Madonna's "Material Girl" video. Then Ivan Boesky and Michael Miliken. Then pan to a lone Chinese demonstrator staring down an armored division. Then a crowd of drunken kids dancing below the Brandenburg Gate...