Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said banners demanding "Free elections" and "Travel law without restrictions" waved above the crowd, and others challenged Communist Party supremacy...
Earlier yesterday, the government published a new draft law that is expected to take effect before Christmas and will permit travel abroad for up to 30 days a year...
Although the new law would allow travel abroad,East Germans pointed out it retains old provisionsgiving authorities the right to refuse passportsfor vague reasons...
...also does not address the problem offinancing such travel. The East German mark is notconvertible and lack of foreign currency couldmake a legal trip impossible...
...unexpected decision to let the refugees outthrough Czechoslovakia created the first directroute to the West since the Berlin Wall was builtin August 1961. Authorities have said the routewill remain open until the travel law takeseffect...