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Article: LETTER FROM WEST GERMANY;For Visiting East Germans, Odd Offers From All Over
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 15, 1989
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While the world waits to see the future of Europe after the Iron
Curtain lifts, smaller dominoes are falling throughout both Germanys.
Here is a sampler:
In West Germany, a new bumper sticker is being spotted on the
legendary autobahns, where speeds of 150 miles an hour are quite
routine. "I Brake for Trabis," it says, a reference to the
smoke-spewing, chugging little East German Trabants that have brought
traffic screeching to a near-halt on roads in the border areas this
week.
A man who does not brake for Trabis found himself a participant
in the first inter-German car crash of the modern era. In Frankfurt,
a Trabi carrying two East Germans from a town near Weimar got into a
fender ...