Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SCHIRNDING, West Germany--Thousands of young East German refugees rolled into West Germany at the rate of more than 100 an hour yesterday, causing a traffic jam that stretched several miles back into Czechoslovakia...
...people will keep fleeing as long as they can," said Christian Schreiber, a 23-year-old East German who joined fellow citizens taking advantage of the new freedom to escape their Communist homeland through Czechoslovakia...
Alford, who accepted the offer, will head the school's East Asian Legal Studies Center, which has been without the direction of a faculty member for some time...
Czechoslovakia's normally conservative state-run media, which gave only scant reports on the exodus of 15,000 East Germans through Prague last month, swiftly reported the latest arrivals...
...answering the first question, Harvard Tri-Captain John Griffin points out his "adventuresome spirit" as one of the many reasons which brought him to the East...