Word: checkpoints
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Sudden Death at Checkpoint Three...
...border guard in a chat about Western music. The response: a fusillade that sent the musician scrambling to safety in some nearby bushes. In the most recent incident, an Italian truck driver, who happened to be a member of the Communist Party, crossed legally into West Germany at a checkpoint in Bavaria, but then he was called back by the Eastern border guards. As he walked toward the checkpoint, the guards inexplicably opened fire and killed...
...turned in refugees for the reward. We stumbled along for hours. Once we almost fell into a rock quarry. When we got near the border, Agnes couldn't carry Robbie any more, so I took him, and he started to cry. We thought they would hear us at the checkpoint, but a huge truck came rumbling through, so nobody heard us. We kept going through the woods until
...security men from the embassy trailed his light green, partially armored Chevrolet Impala, but dropped away before the entry into no man's land−apparently because Christian militiamen on the other side had insisted that only one car pass. Meloy's car moved through the last checkpoint on the Moslem side−and never reached the first Christian barricade. Somewhere between the two checkpoints, at a spot not visible to either side, the car was stopped by gunmen in what appeared to be a carefully planned operation: the three men were dragged from the vehicle and killed...
...Indian on a nickel and a degree from the Wharton School of Finance. He is also the owner of a Fred Astaire Dance Studio, a Travel Inn, a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, a Cinema I, a Cinema II, a Mr. Softee ice-cream stand and a Fotomat - "a Checkpoint Charlie, a Mandelbaum Gate thing, a booth in the open center of a shopping mall...