Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the Viet Cong terrorism in recent months has been aimed at South Viet Nam's national police, the canh sat. In one attack last week the raiders blew up the canh sat headquarters in Hien Nhon. In another, at Long An, raiders smashed a police checkpoint, killing three police. The enemy has good reason to try to cripple the cops. For the Vietnamese in the white uniforms do not handle only the usual policeman's lot of random robbery and mayhem. More and more, they are meeting the guerrillas face to face. "What is the guerrilla...
...compound the mystery came news that another unhappy Pole had made his way to the West earlier in the month. Using a diplomatic passport to pass through East German border guards, 19-year-old Marek Radomski appeared at West Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie on May 5, told the American MPs on duty that he was "sick of the miserable life under Communism." The young defector's father is an attaché in Poland's embassy in East Berlin and is rumored to be chief of Polish intelligence in all East Germany...
...Framingham checkpoint, however, the experts had taken over. Out in front was Boston's John J. Kelley, immediately followed by Vandendrissche, Eino Valle of Finland, Erik Ostbye of Sweden, and, of course, the Japanese...
...Ford engines. His competition was Merrick Lewis, whose Holocaust (730 horses packed into a 23-ft. frame) was -that's right-an Aronow-designed Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots as he screamed into the Cat Cay checkpoint, with Holocaust smack on his stern. Trying to beat 007 to the checkpoint at Cat Cay pier, Lewis lost his bearings, ran Holocaust onto a sand bar and out of the race. By that point, Dick Bertram was two miles back, waging a mighty fight against smooth water...
...immediately comes upon the wreckage of World War II. A few blocks across from Checkpoint Charlie is Akademieplatz, a mute monument to the East Berlin failure to reconstruct. Grass is pushing its way through the paving of a square, surrounded by once majestic marble Academy buildings with Corinthian columns. Grotesquely shattered marble figures now lie around the base of the buildings, crumbled columns are scattered on the ground, and the burned and sagging roof has rotted to reveal only its steel skeleton and the wreckage inside...