Word: germane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member East German Cabinet resigned yesterday, as the exodus of young workers to the West continued unabated. More than 100,000 people rallied in the streets last night, demanding free elections...
...longer. Now, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announces major policy initiatives to the press on a daily, rather than a quintannual, basis. Eastern European nations are stumbling over each other to declare their independence--witness the recent resignation of the entire East German Politburo. At this torrid pace, the Communist Bloc will soon generate more headlines than the Jane Pauley-Today Show feud...
...exodus to the West went on unabated yesterday with the number of East German refugees arriving in West Germany since Saturday, when free exit through Czechoslovakia was first permitted, reaching more than...
...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...
...time the ban was removed, 5000 EastGermans had gathered at the West German Embassy inPrague. Special trains took the East Germans fromthe embassy to the West German border andthousands of others drove through Czechoslovakiain personal cars...