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How a verbal slip triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall
Günter Schabowski, the former East German government spokesman whose blunder at a televised news conference in 1989 helped trigger the fall of the Berlin Wall, has died. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s David Shukman was at that conference and talks about how events unfolded.
(Photo Berlin Wall Credit: AFP/Getty)
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