Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be the Jakes regime's death warrant. This week East Germany's Communist Party chief Egon Krenz will be in Prague for a visit with Jakes. Sources in Berlin intimate that Krenz will try to persuade the Czechoslovak leader to drop his hard line. The trip, said East German Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer, may just have a "stimulating effect...
East Germany will also have to deal with the economic consequences of opening up its borders. As goods and labor begin to flow across the Wall, the difference between the strong West German mark and the virtually worthless East German mark will create a powerful black market. Beyond that, East Germany will need Western help to revive its Rust Bowl of antiquated factories. West Berlin's Economic Research Institute says it will cost $250 billion just to bring the country's hopelessly outmoded communications system up to Western standards. Upgrading roads and rails could cost as much or more...
...churning instability. So the questions are piling up: What can the West do to strengthen the democratic movements in Poland, Hungary and East Germany? What sort of relationship can be forged between the former Soviet satellites and the capitalist states of Western Europe? How can the pressure for German reunification be kept in constructive channels? Long range, what is the future of NATO in a Europe no longer frightened by the threat of Communist invasion...
...hundreds of relatives of Flight 103 victims in an organized attempt to change Government and airline policies and win compensation for their loss. Embittered after countless run-ins with unresponsive and evasive officials, their early efforts to lobby for improved airline safety quickly hardened into demands for the British, German and U.S. governments to disclose what they know about the bombing. Bert Ammerman, a high school assistant principal who lost his brother Tom and now heads a group called Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, calls Washington a "cesspool of unaccountability." After months of lobbying Congress and a meeting with...
...West German police apprehended 16 suspected terrorists but then released all but two of them in October 1988, after discovering a cache of explosives and a bomb similar to the one used to destroy Flight 103 eight weeks later. Marwan Khreesat, a Jordanian who some authorities believe assembled the Pan Am bomb, was among those set free. Published stories contend that Khreesat was also a German intelligence agent; German authorities deny...