Word: autobahn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point where the double rows of barbed wire run parallel to the West German Autobahn, the East Germans have built a huge billboard on their side of the line, on which is drawn a likeness of the great German writer and the slogan: "Anti-bolshevism is the underlying madness of the 20th century. - Thomas Mann...
...sent armed convoys across the border to escort civilian-dressed military personnel into the Russian sector to demonstrate U.S. right of access. But last week, on direct orders from the State Department, the probes were called off. At the same time, Washington stopped U.S. patrols along the 110-mile Autobahn that links West Germany with the divided city. Reason: Secretary of State Dean Rusk was anxious to shift the Berlin issue away from border squabbles to the negotiating table. The Soviets displayed no similar inclination...
...back." Were this to happen, said Nitze, war would not necessarily be confined to Germany, or even Europe: "We can offset a local preponderance of Communist strength by a determination to apply Western strength on terms other than those selected by the Soviets. Soviet tanks across the Autobahn to Berlin would interpose at only one of the many points throughout the world where the important or vital interests of the Soviet empire are vulnerable...
...airlift, which in 1948-49 humiliated Stalin's Russia. Despite a lot of loose and unknowing talk about Communist electronic devices making air navigation into West Berlin impossible, the airlift remains perfectly feasible. Beyond that, there is the opportunity for the West to force its way through the Autobahn corridor to West Berlin, since right of access to the city is guaranteed by international law. Indeed, it would not make much difference whether papers were stamped by East German gate guards or-as they are now-by Russians...
...British Hawker Hunter, was whisked to 43,000 ft., broke through the sound barrier, then was brought down to buzz a Hannover airfield at a risky 100 ft. After receiving a diploma citing him as "Germany's fastest minister," Strauss jowled: "I felt safer than on the Autobahn...