Word: travels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Driving their sputtering Trabants and Wartburgs filled with stereos, luggage and children, the refugees needed to travel only 15 miles from the East German border to reach Bavaria in West Germany...
...Friday, Communist officials in East Berlin agreed to allow neighboring Czechoslovakia to open its Western frontier for East Germans seeking to go West. East Germany on Wednesday lifted its month-old ban on travel to Czecholslovakia, the only country East Germans can visit freely...
...least 8000 East Germans swarmed into Czechoslovakia after a month-old travel ban was lifted on Wednesday, the official East German news agency ADN said. It is the only country East Germans can visit freely...
...East Berlin, Communist Party leader Egon Krenz urged closer economics ties to the West and said a new law permitting travel to the West would be announced next week. Several top Communist officials resigned, including the wife of former leader Erich Honecker...
...what he calls "a new course" for the country, promising freer travel abroad and declaring amnesty for demonstrators, people who have fled the country illegally and those who have been caught while trying...