East Germany Opens the Berlin Wall
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Like him or not, Mikhail Gorbachev is the winner and new champion.
He has just taken the title of the Great Emancipator from our own Abe Lincoln.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev, wittingly or unwittingly, now has freed more people than any man in history.
And he’s done it peacefully, avoiding international and civil war.
PHILIP H. WILLON, Palos Verdes Peninsula
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