DW-WORLD: Petition to Keep Tempelhof Airport Gathers Momentum The closure of Berlin's Tempelhof Airport later this year should have been a done deal.
But now that a public petition against the decision has been successful, the Berlin government might have to hold a referedum. (02.02.2008) DW-WORLD: Historic Berlin Airport Set to Close in 2008 A German court has rejected a bid to prevent the closure of the capital's imposing Tempelhof airport. Berlin's lifeline during the Soviet blockade of the 1940s, the airport will now shut for good in October Japanese PM meets Putin in Moscow ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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