Word: walling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall was the primary division between East and West Germany, and its opening removes the main obstacle to reunification. Some well-stacked bricks with electrified wire (and a few well-placed sharpshooters) doesn't constitute a wide enough chasm to keep apart the two halves of a once-mighty European nation. The gulf which separated the Germanies--and still separates them--is membership in their respective economic and military alliances, treaties more permanent than a stack of bricks...
This gulf isn't the physical distance across the no-man's land behind the Wall, but the political distance between Comecon and the EEC, between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. For now, East Germany remains a vital part of the frontline forces of the Warsaw Pact, and West Germany provides the crux of NATO forces in Western Europe...
...presented the Forrestal's crew with a piece of the crumbling Berlin Wall as "a symbol of the peace we seek...
From the election of a Solidarity government in Poland to the opening of the Berlin Wall to the announced end of Communist monopoly rule in Czechloslovakia, the East is entering uncharted waters, and the West wants to know what it all means--immediately...
Still, Harvard (2-3-1,2-3-1) played its best game of the season in its 4-2 defeat of Dartmouth Monday in Hanover, N.H. Forward Mike Vukonich notched his second straight two tally game, and sophomore goaltender Allain Roy was a wall, coming up with a career-high 45 saves. Most important, the Crimson generally was able to stay away from the ill-advised penalties that have plagued them this season, although third-period infractions nearly cost them the game...