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Chronicle 1980

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    • 1 January

      1980

      The GDR becomes a member of the UN Security Council for two years.
    • 10 January

      1980

      US President Jimmy Carter imposes a grain embargo on the Soviet Union because of its intervention in Afghanistan. The conditions for Western technology exports (CoCom agreement) to the Soviet sphere of influence are also tightened.
    • 14 January

      1980

      The UN General Assembly calls for the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in a resolution.
    • 22 January

      1980

      The Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov is arrested along with his wife, Yelena Bonner, and exiled to a camp near the city of Gorky.
    • 26 January

      1980

      In a speech to SED District Secretaries, SED General Secretary Erich Honecker speaks of a promising development in German-German relations, which, he says, could however be easily damaged by increased tensions in the international situation and the "torpedoing of the détente".

      In the GDR weekly magazine "Horizont", the West German government is called upon to take action against Western "escape assistance" organisations; otherwise, the magazine says, GDR "measures" affecting transit traffic from and to Berlin were to be expected.
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    • 30 January

      1980

      The meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and SED General Secretary Erich Honecker scheduled for spring is postponed.
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