European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1 l lil Azine.  that collapsed surge of liberation supplants cold War by Marcus Eliason associated press o top East German Border guards shake hands with West German police after the Berlin Wall was opened at the Brandenburg Gate. Above a slogan in English written on the Back of a Kiosk in downtown Prague announces the Victory of democratic forces in Czechoslovakia. Of Crisp of of Ning. As Eastern Europe was Becomer. J of. An old Man named �?~>1 Pavlits sat near the hungarian Border Lence and remembered a december Day m 1948 that was when the barbed wire went up Between Lut Mann Bury in Austria and Zsiray in Hungary and soldiers came from the hungarian hinterland they knew Little of the Bonds that had Hod the two villages for generations innocently they asked a Farmer for the loan of his pliers so they could tighten the wires in what would come to be known As the Iron curtain the world ended Here but it was Only half a world the other half was Over there. Said Pavlits gesturing with his callused labour s hand at the lights comm on in Sira 300 Yards East and now the barbed wire is being taken away and the world is whole again the world is whole again it was a refrain heard constant a by a reporter and photographer on a Hume from tra Omunde the West go Man pod where the Iron curtain begins with watchtowers and High fences to . The italian port when. It ends m a Rusty she High rail the most vivid Imago of theold War a was in collapse Border wails piled m useless slabs the barbed wire from uprooted czechoslovak fences coiled by the Roadside deserted padlocked watch Lowers Countryside once Yuie divided and Remote now was alive with traffic jams of fast German Day trippers Corning West with tearful villagers surging through fences to meet neighbors Lor the first to me. With a ferryboat making its first crossing of the Educ River in 44 years and with fast and West German Border guards who once glad at each other now chatting As though they always had been friends it was a time of pure euphoria when Pep e everywhere welcomed each other with open arms and the politicians and Arr Mes along the Iron curtain suddenly became Mere in owes the tic a Curt am the Mage popularize a by sir Winston Chu chill in a speech Vanin 0. 194g. At Westminster i Hege m Fulton to an Iron curtain con much on a Jav 14 saturday february 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 13