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Fortnight ago, when the U.S. told the Russians that they could no longer use Checkpoint Charlie as the crossing point for their daily convoy to the Soviet war memorial in West Berlin, the Reds meekly shifted the procession to the shorter route across Sandkrug Bridge in the British sector. Same day, at a meeting of Allied commanders, U.S. Major General Albert Watson proposed that the Russians be instructed to return to using buses instead of the formidable, six-wheeled armored cars that had been brought in to protect Red soldiers from rock-hurling West Berliners last month...
...nothing without permission from France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who was junketing around West Germany with Charles de Gaulle. An other day passed before French approval arrived. By the time the Russians received the tripartite note "suggesting" that they revert to buses for their convoy, both the message and the Western wrangle were the talk of Berlin...
...Martial de Villemandy, 35, bounced around Europe and America with his vaudeville parents before they separated. Previously imprisoned as an army deserter, he helped botch the assassination attempt by crashing the car that was to signal the arrival of the presidential convoy...
When the Russians first began using armored cars instead of buses for the daily changing of the guard at the Soviet war memorial, Western officials accepted the switch as a practical measure to protect Russian troops from stones hurled by West Berliners. But the Russian convoy grew and grew and grew. At first there were only three small four-wheeled armored personnel carriers. Then the small APCs were replaced by three larger six-wheeled armored cars. Then the Russians suggested that they might want to add a fourth. "What next?" groaned U.S. offi cials in Washington and Berlin. "Tanks...
Shortly after 2, one muggy afternoon last week, a convoy of cars drove up Pine Street in downtown Albany. "This looks like the Yankee preachers," murmured one bystander...