Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saechsische Zeitung, a government daily in Dresden, said a person was "seriously injured" when thousands of people tried to board freedom trains that passed through Dresden carrying East German refugees from Czechoslovakia to the West...
...PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--A West German diplomat rescued an East German grabbed by a police officer yesterday as he tried to scale a fence into Bonn's mission. However, most Czechoslovak police relaxed their controls, letting hundreds more refugees enter the compound as a new diplomatic dispute built up over the issue...
Yesterday, both East Germany and Czechoslovakia accused West Germany of breaking its word by harboring new refugees, going back on conditions it agreed to in gaining release of the earlier refugee throng...
More East Germans, however, were reportedcrossing the border from Czechoslovakia tocommunist Hungary and entering Austria fromHungary...
Hungary's official news agency, MTI, said 2880people entered Hungary from Czechoslovakia overthe weekend, most of them East Germans. It said 24people swam the Danube between Rajka and Esztergomto cross into Austria...