Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Meanwhile, the East-West barrier in Berlin itself exploded with new violence. Now, for the first time, German police on both sides were exchanging gunshots as well as curses and tear gas. Each day brought new incidents. One evening, two young East Berliners on an apartment-house rooftop tried to escape by jumping into the net of West Berlin firemen on the street below. But East Berlin cops dashed up to head them off, began shooting. West Berlin police fired back, wounding a Communist cop. Then, from the darkness above, a body came hurtling down; one of the escapers...
Each night the crack of gunfire along the frontier signaled another escape-or failure. Despite the odds, 50 new refugees made it to freedom every 24 hours. But it was getting tougher, for the Communists were building the barrier higher and broader. Hearing the news from home, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, visiting the U.S., grimly told a Manhattan audience that whatever else is negotiated, "that wall in Berlin must come down...
...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...