Prague Sets Date to Dismantle Iron Curtain
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Czechoslovakia will completely dismantle its Iron Curtain border with West Germany and Austria by June, the state news agency CTK reported Monday.
Czechoslovakia had almost 420 miles of barbed wire and other technical equipment along its western and southern borders with West Germany and Austria before the peaceful revolution that overturned one-party Communist rule last November.
Border guards began dismantling the border fortifications in December.
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