Word: told
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the armed forces and riot police, who just nine days ago beat peaceful protesters, indicated backing for the growing reform movement. "We support the democratic changes," a riot police officer told the crowd, which braved freezing weather and snow...
...Adamec told the cheering crowd there was "noplace for rivalry and interests of prestige...
...West Germany, Bonn's Die Welt newspaperreported Soviet military leaders told East Germantroops not to use force against prodemocracydemonstrators in their country
According to police records, the group of four white males approached the student shortly after 1 a.m. The student told police that the four punched and kicked him and then stole his $200 brown leather jacket and a wallet containing $5 in cash...
Fifty-one years ago, a famous British Prime Minister bet his reputation that no such emotions would ever reign in Germany. After returning from the 1938 Munich Conference at which he agreed to let Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain told his fellow citizens, "For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time....Go home and get a nice quiet sleep...