Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the border was thrown open, East Germany charged that Hungary was in "clear violation of legal treaties" and demanded that it stop letting the refugees through. Budapest angrily dismissed the charges and asserted that it was not willing to become a "refugee camp" for East Germany's problem. Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn rejected the charges of payments from West Germany as "unacceptable and insulting," then hinted that East Germany might be guilty of the same. Horn had a point: since 1961, East Germany has demanded cash from West Germany before granting legal exit permits for many...
Eight of 18 lanes at the Hegyeshalom crossing were open as the jubilant East Germans drove through. They honked their horns, cheered and whistled, releasing emotions pent up by days and weeks of waiting for a decision by Hungarian authorities. Some refugees waved bottles of foaming champagne from the car windows...
...statement yesterday by the official Hungarian news agency MTI said, "Hungary has decided to make it possible for the East German citizens staying in Hungary and refusing to return home to leave to any country which is prepared to let them through or receive them...
...Hungarian foreign minister, Gyula Horn, suggested on Hungarian television that tens of thousands of other East Germans now vacationing in Hungary also may choose to leave for the West along with those in the refugee camps...
...This is a humanitarian decision and an act of European solidarity. I am deeply thankful to the Hungarian government," Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany said in Bonn...