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Word: checkpoints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Impasse. The scene, as so often in the past, was the autobahn corridor that passes through Communist-ruled East Germany between West Berlin and West Germany. As a routine function, Soviet guards stop U.S. troop convoys at checkpoint stations, count the soldiers-and then wave them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Unthawing the Thaw | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...last week. At roughly the same time, a 61-troop eastbound convoy and a 73-troop westbound convoy rolled into the autobahn's Marienborn checkpoint. Russian guards not only stopped both convoys but ordered that all the U.S. personnel get out and line up for head counts. Then came one of the oddest impasses of the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Unthawing the Thaw | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Moscow-bound Train No. 7 had just pulled into Naushki, the Soviet railroad checkpoint on the Mongolian frontier. Suddenly, swarms of Red Chinese students dashed out of the coaches and into the station, tied themselves with belts to block the entrances. Then, in the words of astounded Stationmaster Prokop Mikhailov, they "emptied their bowels and bladders on the floor, in spittoons, and on benches. And the men's room was only a few steps away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Passengers Will Please Refrain | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...authority. Today, rather than one central police force, Caracas has six-all with different bosses and varying assignments. Cooperation is a sometime thing. Last week, after four men held up a Pepsi-Cola warehouse seven miles outside Caracas, an employee pursuing them down the highway stopped at a police checkpoint. "We have nothing to do with that," said the cop on duty. "Go to the technical judicial police." A few months ago, two prowl cars from different forces apparently answered the same call. A shot went off, and puzzled police in the two cars began firing at each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Comic Cops | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...crosses marking each spot where a fleeing East German had been shot to death by Com munist guards. Only late in the evening was the city's grave calm broken by a mob of some 2,000 hell-raising West Berliners who surged into the area around Checkpoint Charlie, hurling rocks and insults across the Wall into the Soviet sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: It Is Still There | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

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