Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the passengers who had boarded Pan Am's Flight 688 in Frankfurt, West Germany, one morning ast week, there seemed nothing remarkable about the bearded man and his three neatly dressed companions. But as soon as the jet landed at West Berlin's Tegel Airport, the foursome rushed into...
...swap was the prisoner from Lewisburg: Robert Thompson, 43, a onetime U.S. Air Force clerk who had served 13 years of a 30-year sentence after confessing, in 1965, that he had passed hundreds of photos of secret documents to the Soviets while he was based in West Berlin. After the exchange, Thompson hurried off into East Berlin, leaving behind several lingering puzzles about his true identity. Although U.S. investigators remained persuaded that he was a Detroit-born American, Thompson maintained that he was actually born in Leipzig (now in East Germany) of a Russian father and a German mother...
...Alan van Norman, 22, a biology student at Minnesota's Concordia College. He flew home last week after being delivered to the U.S. mission in West Berlin by the East Germans. They sentenced him to a 2½-year prison term last January, after he had been caught five months earlier attempting to smuggle a family out of East Germany. After his release, Van Norman told newsmen that he had "only wanted to help people. It was not a question of money." He appeared in good health, although he complained of "very rough interrogation" during his first three months...
...stakes were not high enough in either the Berlin crisis or the Cuban missile crisis for either nation to consider the use of nuclear weapons, Bundy said. In the missile crisis, he said, there was "a nuclear danger--yes, a readiness to take the nuclear step--no," adding that the danger probably had a "salutary effect" in alerting the world to the threat of nuclear disaster...
DIED. Lucius DuBignon Clay, 80, uncompromising four-star general who directed the rebuilding of Germany after World War II and masterminded the Berlin airlift; in Chatham, Mass. A West Point graduate with a flair for administration, Clay held a number of military engineering posts before spearheading the U.S.'s entire military supply system during World War II. In 1947 he became military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, where he stabilized the country's economy and helped formulate a constitution guaranteeing democratic elections. Confronted by a Russian siege of Berlin in June 1948, and ordered...