The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Although Chernenko had called for renewed détente with the West, little progress was made towards closing the rift in East − West relations during his rule.

The song was recorded on 26 May 1971 and a month later received its first radio airplay on New York ’ s WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM to mark the closing of The Fillmore East, a famous New York concert hall.

By late 1944, the United States, Canada, France, and Great Britain were closing in on Germany in the West, while the Soviets were closing from the East.

In South East England ( especially London ) it was common until recent times for vendors selling cockles, whelks, mussels and other shellfish, to sell to customers during the evening and at closing time.

In South East England ( especially London ) it was common until recent times for vendors selling cockles, whelks, mussels and other shellfish, to sell to customers during the evening and at closing time.

In 2007, Sting joined Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland and played the closing set at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Pruett ’ s grocery store was a new one, but within a few years merchants began deserting Antlers ’ historic downtown for East Town Village or other locations, or closing altogether.

In 1961, East Germany erected a barbed-wire barrier that would eventually be expanded through construction into the Berlin Wall, effectively closing the loophole.

In 1954, long before the Beeching Axe, the branchline committee of British Railways proposed closing the line from East Grinstead to Culver Junction near Lewes.

Even with the closing of the Inner German border officially in 1952, the border between the sectors of East Berlin and West Berlin remained considerably more accessible than the rest of the border because it was administered by all four occupying powers.

In August 1961, East Germany erected a barbed-wire barrier that would eventually be expanded by construction into the Berlin Wall, effectively closing the loophole.

New Zealanders in the RAF itself included pilots, such as the first RAF ace of the war, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere ( whose book Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat ) and leaders such as the World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded No. 11 Group RAF in the Battle of Britain and went on to the air defence of Malta and, in the closing stages of the war, Commonwealth air units under South East Asia Command, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham Air Tactical Commander of D-Day.

Even after the closing of the Inner German border officially in 1952, the city sector border in between East Berlin and West Berlin remained considerably more accessible than the rest of the border because it was administered by all four occupying powers.

Accordingly, in the face of such a movement, it suffered the fate of similar ventures undertaken in the closing days of Empire including the West Indies Federation and East African Community.

Savio Preparatory High School was formerly located in East Boston before its 2007 closing.

The request was rebuffed, and on August 13, East Germany erected a barbed-wire barrier that would eventually be expanded through construction into the Berlin Wall, effectively closing the loophole.

Another was the closing of the Butterfield Overland Mail stations which connected the Arizona frontier colonies to the East and California.

Shortly after the closing of Sculpture to Wear in 1977, he opened the first edition of Artwear Gallery at 28 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side, near the couture district on Madison Avenue.

New Zealanders in the RNZAF and RAF included pilots such as the first RAF ace of WW2, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere, whose Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat, and leaders such as World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded 11 Group, responsible for the defence of London in the Battle of Britain, the air defence of Malta and in the closing stages of the war, the RAF in South East Asia.

After World War I there was significant development east of Sydney Road, with the former East Coburg Primary School opening in 1926, and a Coburg East Post Office opening in 1929 ( closing in 1975 ).

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 102-07740, Berlin, " Schnaps-Ede " der Likör-Verkäufer. jpg | A liquor-seller after closing time on the road.

In 1935, Dulles closed Sullivan & Cromwell's Berlin office ; later he would cite the closing date as 1934, no doubt in an effort to clear his reputation by shortening his involvement with Nazi Germany.

The closing days of the fighting saw the 7th Infantry Division withdrawn from Pork Chop and the 1st Marine Division ordered to evacuate the Berlin positions for the same reason.

BASC continued to ensure safety of flight for 24 hours a day with each of the Four Powers being represented by a Chief Controller, with a Deputy and General Duty Controller, all of them Air Force Officers ( the Soviet had a controller and an interpreter on duty ) until its closing on 31 December 1990 following the lapse of Allied responsibilities in Berlin.

In Victor Serge ’ s novel Unforgiving Years ( Les Années sans pardon ) the character Herr Schiff-an old German professor loyal to the Nazi regime, demoralized and disoriented in war-ravaged Berlin in the closing days of the Second World War – rereads Hans Delbrück ’ s The History of Warfare: “ Lately, it was true, the sense of most of what he read escaped him ; but being incapable of inattention, the mechanical act of reading acted upon him like a sedative.

In March 1945, as the Red Army was closing in on Berlin in the final weeks of the Second World War, Diem staged another famous event in the city's Olympic stadium.

Bismarck refused a second time when Peters returned to Germany in the closing days of the Berlin Congo Conference demanding an imperial charter.

The closing of mine shafts resulted in nationwide attention for the potash miners, who took part in a lot of industrial action ( Hunger strikes and a march to Berlin ) under the slogan “ Bischofferode ist überall ” (“ Bischofferode is everywhere ”).

In 1935, Dulles closed Sullivan & Cromwell's Berlin office ; later he would cite the closing date as 1934.

The final alteration, in 1985 ( four years before the fall of the Berlin Wall ), was minor in comparison, adding a paragraph in which the attendants pledged to respect and help one another, and extending the closing address, emphasising the " heavy responsibility " conferred on the newly come-of-age.

At the closing stages of the war in May 1945, Knorozov and his unit supported the push of the Red Army vanguard into Berlin.

the closing of the East German border in August 1961 and the subsequent construction of the Berlin Wall.

As police began closing in again, the men left Chicago to hide out first in Florida ; later at the Gardner Hotel in El Paso, Texas, where a highly visible police presence dissuaded Dillinger from trying to cross the border at the Santa Fe Bridge in downtown El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico ; and finally in Tucson, Arizona.

However, after a few weeks, the First World War began, closing the Russian border for an indefinite period.

In late May Russia announced that it was closing the Russian-Chechnya border in an attempt to combat attacks and criminal activity ; border guards were ordered to shoot suspects on sight.

They had a harder sound than most rumba bands and were almost unchallenged in that area in Kenya due to the closing of the Tanzanian border in 1977.

The UK signed a treaty with Mexico recognizing Mexican sovereignty over the region, formalizing the border between Mexico and British Honduras, and closing their colony's border to trade with the Chan Santa Cruz " rebels ".

However, with closing of the border with China in 1960 in response to a refugee influx, the trading activity with Nepal ceased resulting in changes in the living style of the Sherpas.

During the closing years of Wanli's reign, the Manchu began to conduct raids on the northern border of the Ming Empire.

Thus, in the aftermath of the war, both nations, brokered by the " guarantors " of the Rio Protocol, entered into a long and difficult negotiation process that concluded with the signing of a Peace Treaty in 1998, and the closing of the hitherto un-demarcated stretch of common border, deep in the Amazonian rainforest.

During the Eritrean-Ethiopian War the port was inactive, primarily due to the closing of the Eritrean-Ethiopian border which cut off Massawa from its traditional hinterlands.

The closing events now take place out of Warwickshire as they continued on to Holbeche House on the border of Staffordshire where they were captured.

The closing song, " Matamoros Banks ", is told in backwards time and explores the thoughts of a dying immigrant crossing the border from Mexico.

The rail network struggled to operate across two economic areas, finally closing across a vast swath of Ireland's border area ( the only cross-border route left being that between Belfast and Dublin ).

operate across two economic areas, finally closing across a vast swath of Ireland's border area ( the only cross-border route today is between Belfast and Dublin ).

Although Sweden demanded that Norway vacate all land to the river Glomma, which was to serve as the new border, with the intercession of Hannibal Sehested, a separate Scandinavian treaty, the Treaty of Copenhagen, was negotiated which reaffirmed much of the Treaty of Roskilde, except that Trøndelag was returned to Norway and the island Bornholm to Denmark, and the clause closing the Sound was deleted.

After the closing of the Caucasus-Jolfa railway due to the dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azarbaijan, cargo exchanges through this border dropped sharply.

The area has not suffered as much from the decline in domestic tourism as Great Yarmouth, across the border in Norfolk, but the local economy has been hit by the gradual closing of holiday camps and dearth of visiting trade.