Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayor Walter Momper of West Berlin said the sudden opening of East Germany's borders was creating traffic jams, currency problems and other economic difficulties the two governments must resolve...
Economics Minister Helmut Haussmann of West Germany announced a six-point aid plan including investments, joint ventures and modernizing East Germany's dilapidated communications and transport systems...
Haussmann did not name a figure for the aid and said East Germany must achieve "thorough change" in its centrally directed economy...
...East German authorities have rejected the idea of adopting a complete free-market system and new Premier Hans Modrow, a leading reformer, says he wants "step-by-step" economic changes...
...official news agency, said the government might open a part of the wall near the Brandenburg Gate as yet another passage between East and West Berlin. The high-columned monument is near the wall in East Berlin and is among the city's best known symbols...