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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...
...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...
...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...
Three months ago, an Austrian youth hid his East Berlin fiancee in the small luggage space behind the seats of an Austin Healey Sprite. Then he ducked his head and gunned the midget sports car (35½ in. high) underneath the last Communist barrier at Checkpoint Charlie with two inches to spare. Few believed that it could be done again, since presumably the Reds would now be suspicious of sports cars. Nevertheless, last week another enamored suitor with the same strategy in mind rented the same Sprite from the same West Berlin agency. Then Norbert Konrad, 26, an Argentine citizen...
...Berlin Wall approached its second anniversary, Communist police assigned to guard it were themselves defecting at the rate of one a day. At Checkpoint Charlie two guards, screened momentarily by a tourist bus crossing from the West, stepped smilingly over the white dividing line. On the River Elbe a 50-year-old boatman packed his wife and three children into a stolen motor launch, put-putted to freedom. Two men rowed a kayak across the Baltic to Denmark. The 20-year-old stepdaughter of an East German army colonel slipped through barbed wire south of the Wall, reported that East...