Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday, Communist officials in East Berlin agreed to allow neighboring Czechoslovakia to open its Western frontier for East Germans seeking to go West. East Germany on Wednesday lifted its month-old ban on travel to Czecholslovakia, the only country East Germans can visit freely...
...strategically important field of high-energy physics. Funded by 14 European countries, the European Center for Particle Physics in Switzerland has completed construction of the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Last month the $660 million 16-mile supercollider began yielding results that promise to place the new frontier of physics firmly in Western Europe...
They began driving across the border at midnight as Hungary removed the frontier barriers to allow more than 7000 East German refugees to escape to the West...
...this frontier town 120 miles northwest of the Hungarian capital, border guards gave only cursory checks to East Germans...
...left Paris the next day for Bordeaux, where we arranged for Portuguese visas for as many Austrians as we could. By that time I was on a list of 49 persons the Nazis had asked the French to hand over. When we arrived at the Spanish frontier, it was closed on order of the Germans. I thought this was the end. But a customs official gave me a sign to follow him, led me behind the customs shed and said, "I know exactly who you are. Have you heard that resistance will continue? A certain General de Gaulle has called...