Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky was just such an occasion. Days before the Soviets handed over Shcharansky, Bonn Bureau Chief William McWhirter set about covering the final days of delicate negotiations for Shcharansky's freedom. He dispatched Correspondent John Kohan, Russian fur hat and extra sweaters in hand, to Berlin to stake out the Glienicker Bridge. Says Kohan, who speaks both German and Russian: "The swap closed out a story of great individual courage and determination. Shcharansky took on the Soviet security apparatus...
Anatoli Shcharansky's happiest day began 2,000 miles away as a dusting of snow glistened on the stone centaurs that guard the western end of Berlin's Glienicker Bridge, where a boldly lettered sign warns passersby, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR. On the eastern side of the 420-ft. crossing, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag and the black-red-and-gold banner of the German Democratic Republic flapped in the chill breeze off the ice-clogged Havel River. Most of the time the iron span in the forested Wannsee district of southwestern Berlin is a bridge leading...
...plain iron span over the Havel River joining Potsdam, East Germany, to ^ West Berlin has long been legendary as the "Bridge of Spies." Across it walked Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the ill-fated U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down over the Soviet Union, who was freed in 1962 in exchange for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel. Last June the bridge was used to trade four Communist- bloc agents for 25 Europeans who had been imprisoned in the East for espionage. Usually such prisoners are traded in secret, often in the foggy predawn hours. Last week, however, the western...
...organizers, the suppliers. Lyndon Johnson never tired of telling the story of how Americans had found Teflon "for your old fryin' pan" on the way to the moon. But there was heavy counterpoint to this melody of invention. Nikita Khrushchev raged at Kennedy in Vienna in 1961. The Berlin Wall went up. The Soviets tested their huge hydrogen bomb, the one U.S. scientists had said they would not have for years...
...lights frequently shattered because of the temperature change. After shivering on frigid sets, the cast finally obtained two 54-seat buses, where they changed costumes by retreating behind cloths strung up like curtains. Then last February, a month before he was scheduled to leave to direct a production at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Schell was laid low by a fever for nearly four weeks. Torn between his Berlin commitment and the unfinished movie, Schell dragged himself out of bed to shoot a few more scenes in Leningrad before departing. "Sometimes," he groans, "I felt half unconscious...