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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government spokesperson Marcel Jansen said the Interior Ministry was asked yesterday to start immediate removal of "technical equipment" along parts of the Czechoslovak-Austrian border. Such equipment includes concrete pylons linked with barbed wire and some electronic wire to detect trespassers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs to Remove Austrian Border Blockade | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

...back to the 13th century. Logic dictates that Poland, repeatedly divided during the 18th and 19th centuries, should sympathize with the Germanys' desire to reunite. But the thought of 78 million Germans under one flag next door is enough to give even the most zealous reformer pause. "We already detect a growth of German assertiveness," warns a leading Polish economist. Says Bromke: "The Warsaw Pact is perhaps the best guarantee of Poland's territorial integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Bloc | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...National Association of Court Workers, which declared the strike, began months ago demanding bulletproof vests and cars, guns, weapons training, bodyguards, metal detectors for offices and even devices that detect fumes emitted by dynamite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colombian Court Staff Strikes for Safety | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...support for Poland's own version of perestroika. "Well, I just looked out the window from the plane, and there is in fact just one Europe." From aloft the Solidarity leader could not, of course, see the very real partition of Europe into East and West. Nor could he detect the many barriers that still separate the countries of Western Europe. But what Walesa did discern is that Europe is changing fast: ideological divisions are disappearing, borders are blurring, and the Continent is coming together in ways that are forcing the rest of the world to take notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charging Ahead Watch out, Washington and Moscow. | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...director of the Fetal Alcohol Education Program at the Boston University School of Medicine: "The more a woman drinks while she is pregnant and the longer she drinks, the higher the risk of FAS." Even so, moderate drinking is not considered safe. "Our best evidence is that we cannot detect adverse consequences to very light drinking," says Dr. Robert Sokol, head of the federally funded fetal alcohol research center at Wayne State University, in Detroit. "But that doesn't mean they don't exist." Beer, wine and hard liquor do not seem to differ in their impact on the fetus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alcohol's Youngest Victims | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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