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CNN's Ingrid Formanek reported from Mali and Joseph Netto from Atlanta, and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London.
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CNN's Salma Abdelaziz and Ingrid Formanek, and journalists Ian Lee and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report.
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"It was quite evident that something big was going to happen, " said Formanek, a CNN producer in Rome then.
CNN: Remembering the night the Berlin Wall fell
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CNN's Ingrid Formanek reported from Mali and Joseph Netto from Atlanta, Barbara Starr reported from Washington, and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London.
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Ingrid Formanek, CNN's international executive producer, was with Blystone that night.
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The night it did fall, Formanek was covering a function -- she can't even remember what now -- when Gunter Schabowski, communist East German Minister of Propaganda, announced that East Germans would be allowed to travel.
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Formanek had been in Berlin off and on about a month, going back and forth between East and West, sneaking past grim-faced border guards, covering demonstrations in East Berlin and then going back to the West to send the television stories.
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"All the Easties finally wanted to see what this forbidden land had to offer, " Formanek said, explaining the tsunami of people who flooded to the wall, for years a grim strip of watchtowers, barbed wire and menacing East German border guards with shoot-to-kill orders.
CNN: Remembering the night the Berlin Wall fell