Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several foreign owners have enjoyed almost instant success with the U.S. companies they took over. One such corporation is Bertelsmann, the West German media giant, which has engineered turnarounds at RCA Records and Doubleday publishing. But a surprising number of other foreign investors have so far proved luckless on U.S. turf. Among the pitfalls found in TIME's survey...
Bonn officals said Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze was instrumental in winning the release of East German refugees and that Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was in touch with Bonn on the matter...
...East German opposition groups criticized theirgovernment's approval of the exodus, declaring ina statement that East Germany was "losing avillage every day." It said reforms were the only"reasonable" solution...
...East German man about 30 years old was seenclimbing the fence to the embassy. A policeofficer hung on, exerting all his weight to bringthe climber down. Refugees inside the fence clungto the man and shouted for help...
They walked away, ringed by police andreporters. A police officer pointed to an EastGerman handcuffed to a park bench. The diplomatarranged for the East German to be freed, then ledboth men into the embassy...