Word: leipzigers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Monday night's march in Leipzig, the largest single protest in the nation's 40:year history, put new pressure on the government to consider reforms...
...Leipzig, protesters on Monday night carried placards demanding freedom of the press and free elections...
Christoph Wonneberger, the pastor of St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Leipzig, told West Germany's ZDF television that more than 120,000 people participated in the three-hour march...
...calm. About 3,000 people gathered the next day in Alexanderplatz to demand government reform, the biggest such demonstration in East Berlin since 1953, but again the police managed to control the crowd. Officials were less successful in keeping the lid on demonstrations outside the capital: in Dresden and Leipzig violent clashes between protesters and police continued throughout the weekend...
...aspirin for a toothache," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "It may relieve the pain, but it won't fix the problem." As the rioting in Dresden made only too clear, the refugees who had the good luck to act are hardly the only ones who want out. In Leipzig, 10,000 East Germans marched through the streets demanding change and shouting the name of the man who inspires them: "Gorbi! Gorbi...