Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Braving a cold winter rain, about 2,000 young people packed East Berlin's Evangelical Bartholomaus Church last week. The setting was a religious one, but the message was plainly political -- a prayer service to honor some 20 East German dissidents jailed last month for disturbing the peace and having "treasonous contacts." A few years ago, such a meeting would have been unthinkable in tightly controlled East Germany. But the glasnost breezes from Moscow seem to have emboldened a new generation to challenge the regime of Erich Honecker...
...Berlin Wall are concerned over the growing ranks of those protesting the January arrests. Honecker, who has taken pains to show that his country is improving its human rights stance, wants to avoid hostile international publicity. West Germany, for its part, wants to preserve relatively friendly bilateral relations. East German Lawyer Wolfgang Vogel, an experienced East- West negotiator, met last week with Ludwig Rehlinger, the West German Secretary of State for Inner-German Affairs, to find a "humanitarian solution" to the growing crisis. Their discussions paved the way for Krawczyk, his family and another dissident to be escorted to West...
...increasingly obvious, even to East Berlin authorities, that not all dissidents can be packed off to the West. Late last week, five more East German dissenters were released onto West German soil. According to Protestant church sources, two of them have permission to return to the G.D.R. after two years, while another two may keep their East German passports and citizenship...
...military resources. Germany's downfall resulted not from economic decline, but from the foolishness of Wilhelm II's Weltpolitik, and provoking America into entering the war. Despite defeat in World War I, Germany still reigned. Hitler's rise to power in the 30's was followed by an expansionist German foreign policy, but his premature invasion of the Soviet Union and his rash declaration of war against the United States, not economic downturn, destroyed the Third Reich...
...American men have an Eric who will challenge. It's not Heiden, but Eric Flaim from Pembroke, Mass. The United States' strongest chance for a gold medal lies in the skates of Bonnie Blair. Blair must defeat the strong East German duo of Karin Kania and Christa Rothenburger, both 1984 gold medalists...