Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, in an abrupt fit of rage at friend and foe alike, thousands of West Berliners went on a violent, four-day emotional bender that complicated the tense situation along the East-West barrier. What brought them to the boil was the death of 18-year-old Peter Fechter, shot while trying to cross the Wall. Many an East Berliner had died in similar efforts, but Fechter bled slowly to death in full view of a helpless, outraged crowd. Suddenly, all the pent-up frustrations exploded in an orgy of riots. After venting their anger on the detested East German...
Wine & a Chorus. After the last rock barrier fell last week, the weary tunnel diggers joined high officials and journalists in a gala celebration over a huge buffet of salami, ham rolls, petits fours, 200 bottles of French champagne and 450 bottles of Italian wine. High and happy, one French worker improvised a dance with an Italian driller who poured wine and mineral water over him as others sang and clanked empty bottles in accompaniment...
...there is a maverick in every outfit; Reporter Roger Simmons of the Florence News nourished a newsman's distaste for military regulations and was unspoiled by Washington obeisance to protocol. Ignoring the ban, he climbed a barrier and assaulted the stands where McNamara was watching an airdrop of 4,000 paratroopers...
When the Communists built their ugly Wall across Berlin last year, East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht freely predicted that the barrier would bring prosperity to his own puppet nation and strangulation to the hated capitalists of West Berlin. Last week, on the Wall's first anniversary, it was clear that just the opposite had happened...
...beach at Durres, Albania's chief seaside resort 25 miles west of the capital, a wall extends across the sand and into the Adriatic to keep an area reserved for the privileged separate from vacationing workers whose families share dingy tin huts on the wrong side of the barrier...