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...Checkpoint Charlie, the hideous maw of the Berlin Wall gapes briefly, affording a narrow passage into the divided German soul. On its Western side, a sea of sensuous color rushes down the Kurfurstendamm, past the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, and spends itself violently but impotently in a scatological orgy of graffiti against the cold barrier. On the Eastern side, a pall hangs over the city, reflected in the rigorously functional, regimented gray apartment blocks that line the streets. Propelled by the engine of the postwar Wirtschaftswunder, the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany is a sporty blond racing...
...scrambled to safety across the Thai border. Within 36 hours last week, the Vietnamese had mopped up all significant resistance at Ampil, in the process sending small detachments of regular troops across the ill- defined Thai border. At one point, a Vietnamese officer walked up to a Thai army checkpoint to inquire where the frontier was. During a brief argument, a Thai sergeant said, "If you fire at us, we'll fire back." Replied the Vietnamese, "If you fire at us, we'll invade Thailand." In the end, the Vietnamese pulled back into Kampuchea after being warned that the Thai...
...Defense Minister General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, who was included as a further gesture of good faith to the guerrillas. As Duarte later told it, the emotional high point of his roughly two-hour trip to the talks came as his red Toyota pulled away from the last army checkpoint, 16 miles south of La Palma. Two officers stepped up to say goodbye. Recalled Duarte: "They said, 'God bless you, and may you bring back peace.' That means I had convinced them of what I was trying...
...result, southern Lebanon is growing increasingly isolated from the rest of the country, a fact that is starkly obvious at the main Israeli checkpoint, near the Lebanese village of Batir al Chouf. Every day the roadway teems with hundreds seeking passage between southern Lebanon and the north. Israeli sentries separate the men from the women, then methodically inspect baggage and examine papers...
...either direction must first obtain permits from an Israeli office in the south. Beirutis wishing to visit the occupied area must ask relatives or friends living in the south to obtain the documents for them. The rules sometimes discriminate: Muslims are forced to travel through the mobbed Batir checkpoint, whereas Christians can take a ferry from Jiyah, north of Sidon, to East Beirut. What used to be a 40-minute taxi ride between Beirut and Sidon is now a journey that takes hours, even days...