Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stem the current outflow. But Krenz and his aides were apparently gambling that if East Germans lost the feeling of being walled in, and could get out once in a while to visit friends and relatives in the West or simply look around, they would feel less pressure to flee the first chance they got. Beyond that, opening the Wall provided the strongest possible indication that Krenz meant to introduce freedoms that would make East Germany worth staying in. In both Germanys and around the world, after all, the Wall had become the perfect symbol of oppression. Ronald Reagan...
...thousands more East Germans flee to the West, the new President genuflects to perestroika in Moscow and his underlings call mass meetings to hear complaints. But events are bringing the two Germanys closer together. -- Ortega scuttles a cease-fire with Nicaragua's contras. -- A vibrant new middle class stirs in India...
...More Flee As East Germany Vows East Travel...
...demonstrable threats: they build houses on eroding beaches, speed without wearing seat belts, go hang gliding and expose themselves to the cancer-causing rays of the sun. On the other side, they suffer a bad case of the jitters about the smallest threat to personal well-being. They flee from apples that might bear a trace of Alar and fret about radon, nuclear power...
...illegal lottery. Centering around the life of a barber, his wife--a social service worker, and a boy he takes on to help him in the shop, the film involves dealings with gangsters involved in the numbers game and a failed attempt to steal money from them and flee to Georgia...