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Head Count. When the topic is Germany, the new, relatively friendly "spirit of Moscow" obviously does not apply. The cold war's thaw can turn into a freeze over trifling matters-in last week's case, a demand that the passengers on Berlin-bound allied convoys dismount from their vehicles to be counted by Russian soldiers...
...Dismounting was one of them, and it was made almost inadvertently in the hurry to get a 1,500-man U.S. battle group to Berlin a week after the Wall went up in August 1961. At the Marienborn checkpoint, the Russians complained that they could not get an accurate count. With brass bands, massed crowds and Vice President Lyndon Johnson waiting impatiently in Berlin for the convoy to arrive, Colonel Glover S. Johns Jr. ordered his men to dismount to speed things up. Ever since, the Russians have frequently demanded that troops in large convoys get out of their vehicles...
...once, word of the blockade was flashed to U.S. headquarters in Berlin. U.S. Commander Major General James H. Polk, immediately fired off a message advising the Russians that "it is the allies who determine under what circumstances they will order troop passengers to dismount." Snapped Spiridonov: "It is the Soviets and not the allied authorities who determine convoy processing procedures...
Reform was the fiery charger that carried Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry into the presidency of Peru last June, and now he cannot dismount. Belaúnde promised to redistribute land, conjured up visions of public housing to replace the slums of Lima, talked of a vast road system to open up the rich lowlands beyond the Andes. But the most emotional pledge of all-and one echoed by all his opponents-was a promise to do something drastic about International Petroleum Co., the Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate that owns one of Peru's richest oilfields...
Outside the Yard, at Johnston Gate, the Lancers will present arms and the Governor will dismount and walk inside the Yard to meet President Pusey and University Marshal J. Hampton Robb...