Word: fulda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers of the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, stationed in the strategic Fulda Gap near the border between East and West Germany, life in uniform has never been easy. Most towns in the area are small, provincial and often dull. East German and Soviet border patrols are a constant presence. Above all, the American servicemen at Fulda are aware that the 30-mile gap is a likely invasion route in the event of a conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...computer war typically starts with a column of Soviet tanks (red symbols on the video screen) lumbering into sight and rolling through pastureland toward the town of Bad Hersfeld, some 120 miles east of Bonn. The tanks skirt green-shaded woods and head for the blue line of the Fulda River. The Livermore programmers have lavished colorful detail on their simulation: as the action mounts land mines explode in flashes of white, and helicopter symbols appear over enemy outposts. Artillery fire slashes across the screen like a laser sword. The flight time the shells is preprogrammed to the millisecond; even...
...Practicing at the Bar and Seurat's Bathing to canvases by American painters Winslow Homer (Crab Fishing off Yarmouth) and John Sloan (Picnic Grounds). There are also reproductions of a medieval tapestry, History of Venus, and several sculptures, notably St. George and the Dragon by Fritz Preiss and Fulda's 11th century antependium for Basel Cathedral. An audience favorite is Norman Rockwell, who has four Saturday Evening Post covers this year. As always, the pageant winds up with Da Vinci's Last Supper...
...very forward edge of the U.S. commitment to nato, some 3,800 men assigned to the surveillance of 400 miles of the Iron Curtain. They are screening, among other places, the "Hof Corridor" into upper Bavaria, a less likely battlefield than the north German plain or the Fulda Gap in central Germany but perhaps a tributary invasion route. A feisty Lieut. Colonel from Florence, Ala., Tony Brinkley, 39, thinks the Second could give "the Pact" (the Soviets plus Eastern Europe, as in Warsaw Pact) a lot of trouble. Some of the men in the tanks and armored personnel carriers...
...FULDA, West Germany--Pope John Paul II yesterday stressed the basic equality of all making in speeches to Jews, Moslems and Protestants at the mid-point of his ten-day visit to Germany...