Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fled, raising the total number of refugees over the past five months to 50,000. Some jumped at the opportunity without a moment's hesitation, others agonized over it. "We talked about it way into the night for days on end," said Christiane Weinbauer of Halle, who joined the exodus with her husband last week. "One minute we had decided to go, and the next we were staying for the sake of our relatives or the children or for reasons of security. Then we heard on a West German radio station that the people in the embassy in Prague were...
...illegal exodus has been going on since May, when Hungary began clipping the barbed wire separating the East bloc from Austria. But nothing dramatized the crisis so vividly -- or posed the hard questions for East Germany so immediately -- as the swarm of tents packed with would-be emigres overflowing the embassy compound in Prague. Last Tuesday, after the first freedom trains had rolled out of Prague, Honecker sealed off the country's border to Czechoslovakia, leaving East Germans isolated and caged once more. There were signs late in the week, however, that restrictions on emigration might be eased, according...
...East Germany's star athletes, two-time Olympic skating champion Katarina Witt, said in Munich yesterday that her government must think about the causes for the exodus and that changes must be considered...
Witt, a member of the Communist Party, called the exodus...
...Will the recent exodus of East Germans to the West strain Warsaw Pact Relations...