TWO DECADES AFTER BERLIN: EXPERTS SAY A "NEW WALL" DIVIDES FORMERLY COMMUNIST STATES FROM EACH OTHER - AND WESTERN-LIKE PROGRESS New Geography of NATO/EU Membership Replaces Iron Curtain In Terms of Defining Key Differences; Former Ambassador to Romania, Network Correspondent Are Authors of New Book: "Dracula is Dead: How Romanians Survived Communism, Ended it, and Emerged Since 1989 as the New Italy" WASHINGTON, Nov.

By Allan Hall The Iron Curtain was synonymous with death and oppression. It was festooned with mines, tripwires that triggered automatic guns, barbed wire, watchtowers, vicious dogs and guards who were paid bonuses to shoot human prey.

Bears are thriving in Arctic forests between Norway and Russia at the northern tip of a planned European "Green Belt" along the route of the former Iron Curtain.

By Terry Ganey, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Mar. 1--When Westminster College celebrates the 60th anniversary of Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech this weekend, no one will be on hand to deliver the John Findley Green lecture, which brought Churchill to the campus in 1946.

THE European Parliament wants states to support its proposal for promoting the route of the former Iron Curtain diving Eastern and Western Europe as a tourist trail.