Word: westing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year, more than 175,000 East Germans--more than I percent of the population of 16.6 million--have moved to West Germany by emigrating legally, escaping or failing to return from approved trips abroad...
...West Germany gives them automatic citizenship and help in starting new lives...
Also yesterday, a day after the governmentintroduced a proposed law promising up to 30 daysof travel to the West, a parliamentary committeerejected the measure and urged the legalization ofunrestricted stays abroad...
...escape route opened Saturday created thefirst free passage to the West since the BerlinWall went up in 1961. Authorities have said theroute will remain open until a new travel lawtakes effect, possibly before Christmas
...find it regrettable that my alma mater has played host to the President of Zaire and extended an academic appointment to the Israeli General who supervised the killing of hundreds of unarmed Palestinians in the West Bank, while considering our conference beyond the sphere of permissable discourse. Trusting that many Harvard students are still motivated by the spirit of free enquiry, I invite them to join us on November 11th at Massachusetts College of Art's Tower Auditorium. Nancy Murray Conference Organizer