Alois Mock, Austrian Who Helped Tear Down Iron Curtain (Literally), Dies at 82

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In 1989, Mr. Mock, the Austrian foreign minister, helped his Hungarian counterpart to cut open the wire fence between the countries just months before the Berlin Wall fell.

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