Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrations coincided with the visit of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the reform-minded Soviet president, for East Germany's 40th anniversary...
...East Berlin, several thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the Lutheran Gethsemane Church for the pro-democracy vigil, West German media reported. "Police have shown restraint so far," radio and television said...
Earlier yesterday, 18 Lutheran Church leaders issued an appeal in East Berlin calling on East Germany's communist government to approve broad democratic reforms and urging all sides to refrain from violence...
...Rainer Eppelmann, a Lutheran pastor in East Berlin, said the doctrinaire regime must "talk with the people about their wishes and needs...
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...