Word: german
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
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...
...West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl denounced the East German government yesterday as "rigidly authoritarian...
...Standard, a respected Austrian daily, said yesterday the East German leadership would like to hire 80,000 Chinese to fill positions left vacant by the departure of young skilled workers. It quoted a "leading member" of the government's Free German Trade Union, who was not identified further...
...firm the same way just because you have acquired the company," says Michel Besson, the French chief executive of CertainTeed, a maker of building materials based in Valley Forge, Pa. "You tend to underestimate their strengths and overlook your own weaknesses." An executive of a West German- owned U.S. subsidiary recalls a dramatic showdown: "Their people would come here and put down our people, our work ethics. I had a little problem with that. I finally slammed my door shut and told my German counterpart that I didn't need him telling us how good he was and how weak...