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These days, with Germany reunited, street vendors sell kitsch memorabilia of the East's Moscow-backed regime. A regular soldier's headwear costs .20. I'm not impressed, so the Turkish stallholder upgrades his offer to a field marshal's cap for .25. Never was promotion so easy. Little bits of concrete are priced at .15. 'What are these?' I inquire. 'Berlin Wall, ' replies the seller. Quite possibly, they are from a wall somewhere in Berlin.
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Berlin, 9 July. It wasn't meant to be like this. High in the Olympiastadion -- Block 28, Row 4, Seat 22 -- at 7.45 p. m. local time, I shut my eyes and imagine the sights and sounds which I'd hoped to experience. For a few seconds, this magnificent amphitheatre is drape...
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