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- NATION, Page 39American NotesPRESIDENTSReagan's Piece Of the Rock
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- "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" The demand was made by
- Ronald Reagan as the then President addressed West Germans at
- Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. With Gorbachev's
- acquiescence, if not encouragement, the deed was done. Last week
- Reagan stood beside a three-ton chunk of the Berlin Wall, 9 1/2
- ft. tall and 3 1/2 ft. wide, and called it "an unnatural, ugly,
- unwelcome, undeniable symbol of the oppression of communism."
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- But this time the former President was standing on a
- hilltop overlooking the Pacific Ocean in California's Ventura
- County. And he seemed pleased to accept the gift of the
- graffiti-splotched memento from East Germany's Berlin Wall
- Commemorative Group. The concrete block will greet visitors to
- the Reagan presidential library at the pleasant site 40 miles
- northwest of Los Angeles. The facility is scheduled for
- completion early in 1991.
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