Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NATION: NATO unclenches its iron fist but stops short of lending Gorbachev a hand...
...Niehues' table, the subject is unification. Those among them who visited the old East Germany remember, as Giersiepen recalls, the "iron faces of the Vopos ((people's police))." When the Wall went up in 1961, they wondered, fleetingly, whether the West would intervene, whether war might even come. The crisis passed, and, preoccupied with starting careers and families, they learned to live with Germany's division. "I always thought history would take care of the separation," says Hoell, "but maybe in 100 years." Born and raised outside Berlin, he fled with his mother to the West in 1949; sneaking across...
Amid the run-down villas in East Berlin's once genteel Pankow district, the lovely stucco house at Am Iderfenngraben 23 looks decidedly out of place. The wrought-iron gate is freshly painted; the clay roof shingles gleam in the afternoon sun. Rudolf Musch, a construction engineer, has spent most of his savings renovating the 1920s home since his family moved in eleven years ago. But the Musches, who pay $92 a month in rent for their 1,658-sq.-ft. space, may soon find themselves on the street. Hilmar Schneider, the owner of the house, who left the East...
...iron will was hardened in the fires of Vietnam-era protests, and pressure from activists invariably makes him even more determined to stay his course. So if you want to win him over to your side, don't march on his office--send him a well-argued letter with lots of footnotes...
...shopowners said that without better response from police, they may be forced to put up iron bars, a step they say they fear would hurt the Square's physical appearance...