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...their wall through Berlin-and thus to win a test of strength with the West. The fact that the Wall has by now become the most familiar landmark in Berlin only makes the situation more poignant. Last week James Bell, TIME bureau chief in Germany, toured the 25-mile barrier. His report...
Berlin's Communist Wall has many faces. In the north and the south, where the French and American sectors touch Communist territory in the city's outer fringes, the classic form of Soviet bloc frontier barrier is rising swiftly; here is row after row of barbed wire strung on concrete posts, and behind the wire are the wide plowed strips of earth visible at all times to the guards who wait with searchlights and machine guns in the squat, brown-painted wooden watchtowers near...
...occasional incident of violence, there is little actual tension along most of the barrier; kids fly kites near by, housewives shout contemptuous gibes at Vopos on the other side; the Vopos shrug, reply with an obscene gesture or just silence. I saw the Communist cops watching curiously as an old man approached the Wall from the western side at Heidelberger-strasse. His yellow arm band showed he was blind. Shuffling up to the wire, he reached out to feel the enormity of the barrier for himself. A young West Berlin woman standing near by curled her lip and cried...
...sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating the formation of a barrier beach. For Maine, the diagram shows how glaciers form eskers, drumlins and kames...
...defenses. Rarely does it hear an abject admission of guilt and plea for forgiveness. Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan to plead guilty to his leader's crimes. "The barrier of silence has been lifted, said Balaguer. "After the death of the man who personified the Dominican state for 30 years, a new government has gradually been modeling its institutions according to the principles of representative democracy...