Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weiss, who collects contemporary prints, mostly from Austria, said of his assemblage, "I've always really loved art and two years ago I worked in a gallery in Austria over the summer...
More than 52,000 East Germans have fled westward since late July, either over Hungary's open border with Austria or after seeking refuge in West Germany's embassies in Warsaw, Poland, and Prague, Czechoslovakia...
...illegal exodus has been going on since May, when Hungary began clipping the barbed wire separating the East bloc from Austria. But nothing dramatized the crisis so vividly -- or posed the hard questions for East Germany so immediately -- as the swarm of tents packed with would-be emigres overflowing the embassy compound in Prague. Last Tuesday, after the first freedom trains had rolled out of Prague, Honecker sealed off the country's border to Czechoslovakia, leaving East Germans isolated and caged once more. There were signs late in the week, however, that restrictions on emigration might be eased, according...
...West. Though their discontent had been brewing for years, Olaf, 28, and Marlies, 26, had never seriously contemplated leaving their East German village of Schonermark, near Potsdam, until Sept. 11. That night, shortly after midnight, Hungary began permitting East German refugees to cross over en masse into Austria. The Breites watched West German television coverage of the Great Escape and realized that the Iron Curtain had parted, but that it could be drawn shut again at any moment. By lunchtime the following day, they were preparing to leave...
...Meeting in the capital of Ljubljana, the republic's parliament overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment allowing Slovenia to secede from the Yugoslav federation. Though a split is not imminent, the move was seen as insurance for the Slovenes against growing Serbian nationalism. Slovenia, which shares borders with Italy and Austria, boasts the nation's most prosperous economy. But it is dependent on raw materials from the rest of the country and, despite growing exports to the West, relies heavily on the Yugoslav market for its manufactured goods...