Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Interior Ministry announcement said work on dismantling fortifications on the border with Austria would begin Monday. The government said last week some of the barbed wire, watch towers and trip wires would be taken down...
PRAGUE--The Czechoslavakian government said yesterday it will begin dismantling its fortifications along the border with Austria, and lawmakers recommended abolishing some of the toughest laws used to crack down on dissent...
...Hungary started dismantling fortifications along its border with neutral Austria, its only point of contact with a Western country...
...destruction of the wall was not seen as the sign of regaining German strength (after all, it is Mikhail Gorbachev, not Germany, who was largely responsible for the dramatic changes), but the reunion with relatives, old and new friends was celebrated. Contrast this, for example, to the Anschluss of Austria or the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, where people cheered at parading tanks and soldiers. I think the difference could hardly be more striking...
...wrote the French novelist Francois Mauriac, "that I am glad there are two of them." That phrase is cited with increasing frequency these days, but the sentiment is old. Clemenceau expressed it first as he wistfully reflected on the delicate balance of power nurtured in the 19th century by Austria's Prince Metternich. Since World War II the division of Germany has been central both to the tensions of the cold war and to the stability of the cold peace that accompanied...