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...developing countries where the American invasion has become full-scale only during the past 20 years, its messages are starker. An artifact of American pop is more vivid and more freighted with meaning in Tunis or Bogota than in Berlin or Ottawa. The explanation for pop's seductiveness seems less complicated in Senegal or Bangladesh: America is equated with prosperity and modernism, and pop connotes America. A Tina Turner song playing on the transistor can mitigate (even as it fosters) a Third Worlder's sense of backwater isolation. Charles Kasinga, the executive at McCann Erickson (Kenya) Ltd. in charge...
...East German government had no immediate response when the three Western countries that occupy West Berlin--the U.S., Britain and France--began conducting tough document checks of Arab diplomats entering the divided city from the East. The heightened security was a response to the April 5 bombing of West Berlin's La Belle disco, in which an American soldier was killed. The U.S. charged that Libyan diplomats based in East Berlin had helped plan the blast. But East Germany's passive acceptance of the new vigilance masked a determination to even the score. Last week East German border guards started...
...East Germans insisted that the policy was intended to crack down on suspected terrorists. The Western powers, however, concluded that the ploy was a new attempt by the Soviet-backed East Germans to alter the unique post-World War II status of Berlin. In the past, foreign diplomats entering or leaving the East sector of the city had only to flash a red identity card issued by the East Germans. By requiring passports rather than cards, the East Germans apparently hoped to establish that the Berlin Wall is an international border --in direct contravention of postwar agreements...
...passport requirement was announced on May 22 in a tersely worded note delivered to all embassies in East Berlin. The U.S., British and French missions rejected the message and directed their diplomats to show only identity cards when they drove through Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing between East and West Berlin most used by foreigners. East German guards allowed them to pass, but diplomats from other countries, including West Germany, were turned back and advised to return with their passports...
...heart of the problem is the disputed status of Berlin. After Hitler's defeat in 1945, the city was carved up by the victorious Allies. Technically, the entire city is under the combined control of the four occupying nations. In practice, the three Western powers jointly administer the western half of the city, while the Soviet Union takes responsibility for East Berlin. In 1949, with Moscow's backing, East Germany proclaimed East Berlin as its capital. When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, the East Germans had a physical boundary that they insisted was part of their frontier. They...