Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telling too, in this moment of generational change, that while the East looks to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Egon Krenz, America reflects with longing back to the late John F. Kennedy, whose voice still rings resonantly from some younger, self-idealized national age, for answers. It would seem that the times are even ready for change in our own country...
Economic integration of East Germany into the European Community is also impossible in the short run, we learn. Citizens in West Germany are already beginning to grumble over the housing crunch and economic drain induced by the Eastern immigrants...
...summarize the East-West equation...
...What is the impact of events in Eastern Europe -- the changes in Poland, Hungary and East Germany -- on Soviet military thinking...
...really in the West's best interest, however, to see it reduced to rubble? On a symbolic level, certainly. The Wall's designer and chief defender, former East German President Erich Honecker, called his creation the "Anti-Fascist Protection Barrier." In this era of glasnost, such rhetoric has about as much standing as the deposed Honecker himself, who was ousted by the East German Politburo three weeks ago after 18 years at the helm...