Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported he would leave for the Soviet Union today. Krenz has said East Germany can learn much from reforms promoted by Gorbachev, the Soviet president...
BERLIN--Hundreds of thousands of East Germans marched for democracy last night, the eve of a trip to Moscow by new leader Egon Krenz for talks with the Soviet bloc's champion of reform, Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
Lutheran Church sources in East Berlin said 3000 pro-reform activists demonstrated in the capital...
...Assyrians, who first rose to power about 17 centuries after the unification of Egypt, swept out of the fertile valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to conquer much of the Middle East, from roughly 900 B.C. to 612 B.C. They were known for their ferocious cruelty. In addition to their biblical role as the oppressors of Israel, there was the testimony of Ashurnasirpal II, an Assyrian king of the 9th century B.C. who boasted in cuneiform inscriptions of having rebellious chieftains impaled on stakes, dismembered and skinned alive. Ashurnasirpal made Nimrud, known in the Bible as Calah, his capital...
...WORLD: East Germany gets a younger leader, but changes at the top may not alter the mounting crisis down below...