Word: barriere
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...police that has constituted the frontier between divided Germany for two decades. In spite of the political détente that is expected to arise from the recent state treaty signed by the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, East German authorities are reinforcing the deadly barrier. In recent months, for example, workmen have been methodically replacing the barbed wire fences with new gratings; their mesh is too fine to climb...
Such grim improvements in the barrier are clearly designed to discourage East Germans, 871 of whom escaped last year, from interpreting détente as a license to flee to the West. Other recent innovations will relieve East German border guards of any problem of conscience they might have. Although guards are under orders to shoot to kill would-be escapees on sight, some have apparently looked the other way or deliberately avoided hitting their compatriots. The East Germans have now equipped sections of the barrier with automatic self-firing weapons, mounted on three levels so that anyone seeking...
Where there are no self-firing weapons, second and third fences have been laid behind the frontier barrier with buried mines and a deep concrete-plated ditch between them. This type of fortification is intended to prevent a favorite escape maneuver: crashing through the barricade with a heavy car. Along certain sections of the border, the fences farthest away from the frontier are now equipped with electrified barbed wire that, when touched, alerts nearby border-control posts by optical and acoustical signals. Floodlights along populated sections of the frontier have long afforded West Germans a permanent panorama of escape attempts...
Methadone, which easily crosses the placental barrier, may impede the fetus's normal development. More than 50% of all children born of methadone mothers are either premature or small for their gestational age. The same is true of the heroin baby, but most mothers on heroin receive minimal prenatal care and often have poor eating habits. By contrast, the methadone mother in a registered maintenance program is usually referred to a doctor for prenatal care. Although physicians cannot yet prove it, some suspect that the underdevelopment and prematurity of the methadone baby is a direct result of the drug...
...capita personal income from such sources as wages, dividends, interest and rent rose from $3,620 to $3,821 at last count. Investors profited from the stock market's climb to new peaks; the Dow Jones industrial average, which started the year at 889, finally cracked the 1000 barrier and closed at 1020 (see box, page 52). The prices that farmers collected for their goods increased by about 15%, bringing delight in the farmhouse while raising howls in the supermarkets and complicating the Government's continuing crusade against inflation. As incomes went up around the nation, retailers...