Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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East Germany's new premier said the Berlin Wall must remain, to keep AIDS, crime and other Western problems out of his country. He promised a coalition government but did not say whether the opposition could join...
...quoted Tuesday in the West German newspaper Bild as saying the Berlin Wall can remain open to travel, but will not come down...
...official news agency, said the government might open a part of the wall near the Brandenburg Gate as yet another passage between East and West Berlin. The high-columned monument is near the wall in East Berlin and is among the city's best known symbols...
...government said it was dismantling internal barriers that for three decades formed a notorious "death strip" between the Berlin Wall and the city's sealed-off eastern sector...
...true, that is a heady promise for a country that barely a month ago still cowered under one of the most monolithic and authoritarian of Communist regimes. The transformation east of the Wall has already been dramatic, indeed incredible: Who could have imagined East Berlin's Communist Party boss, mayor and police chief standing on the steps of city hall for five hours, listening patiently to criticisms that would once have been considered virtually treasonable...