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...Shankill district is a Protestant Bogside, barricaded and bellicose. Just off the Shankill Road, past a checkpoint of steel pipe driven into the pavement, is the headquarters of C Company, Ulster Defense Association. ¶Company patrols, some riding Land Rovers, mount round-the-clock guard over the area's narrow back streets. From C Company headquarters, a two-way radio network keeps the patrols in contact, while a clandestine broadcasting station-named Radio Free Nick, for nearby Nixon Street-keeps up local residents' morale with pop-record requests and Orange marching songs. ¶Company is one of eleven...
...access to West Berlin and more movement among residents of the two sectors of divided Berlin. After the signing, Rogers made the first visit into East Berlin by a U.S. official in a car bearing an American flag. He was saluted by East German border guards as he crossed Checkpoint Charlie. Second, the Foreign Ministers of NATO, briefed on the summit by Rogers, selected Helsinki as the site to begin exploratory talks in the fall that will precede a 33-nation conference on European security, probably in 1973. It would presumably legitimize the Russian seizure of Polish and German lands...
...thousands-old people struggling with sacks full of presents, small children carrying freshly cut roses or tulips, young mothers pushing prams, men lugging thick suitcases. Alternately smiling and weeping for joy, the visitors trudged past the tank traps, the death strip, the watchtowers. Finally, after clearing the last checkpoint, they rushed to meet friends and relatives whose faces some of them had almost forgotten. "Meine Liebe!" cried one old lady as she embraced an East Berlin friend. "What a beautiful...
...zone. Elements of the seasoned 5th, 7th and 9th divisions are believed to have slipped across the Cambodian border into the dense jungles northwest of Saigon; U.S. intelligence sources believe that the Communist troops are prepared to launch attacks on two hours' notice. At a checkpoint outside the capital last week, a load of Communist AK-47 assault rifles was discovered in a civilian truck...
...return to the situation that existed prior to the Six-Day War is highly unlikely. The city was divided into two armed camps, its natural fabric torn by barricades, barbed wire and a guarded checkpoint at the Mandelbaum Gate, its two sectors closed to each other more effectively than East and West Berlin. Moreover, there is still some question about Jordan's right to the Old City. In 1948, as the 26-year British mandate over Palestine ended, King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan seized the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Old City while the Jews were...