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East German Birth Rate Tumbles Abortion Rising in Hard Times
East Germany tightens life under the Berlin Wall two years after it sealed escape routes. A reporter tours Rostock Dresden Weimar Karl Marx Stadt Jena and East Berlin to show factory work shortages rising abortion rates and limited goods while officials tout production gains and tighter control. High prices scarce consumer goods and long waits illustrate daily hardship and censorship.
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Berlin Wall
Loyal Gould
Rostock
East Germany
Baltic Sea
Dresden
Weimar
Karl Marx Stadt
Jena
East Berlin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Germany
Ulbricht
Eastern Bloc