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...where a boldly lettered sign warns passersby, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR. On the eastern side of the 420-ft. crossing, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag and the black-red-and-gold banner of the German Democratic Republic flapped in the chill breeze off the ice-clogged Havel River. Most of the time the iron span in the forested Wannsee district of southwestern Berlin is a bridge leading nowhere, unused except for the occasional official vehicle...
...plain iron span over the Havel River joining Potsdam, East Germany, to ^ West Berlin has long been legendary as the "Bridge of Spies." Across it walked Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the ill-fated U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down over the Soviet Union, who was freed in 1962 in exchange for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel. Last June the bridge was used to trade four Communist- bloc agents for 25 Europeans who had been imprisoned in the East for espionage. Usually such prisoners are traded in secret, often in the foggy predawn hours. Last week, however, the western...
...exchange took place on the Glienicker Bridge spanning the Havel River between Potsdam, East Germany, and West Berlin. The Soviet and East German & officials clustered at one end, the Americans, led by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, at the other. From the Potsdam side, a bus containing some two dozen East Germans and Poles who had been imprisoned as spies for the West crept to the span's center. The passengers switched to a West German bus and rode to freedom. Moments later, a blue van drove from the West Berlin side to the same spot. Three...
...Seifert. Was the academy pointedly honoring a man for having spoken out against Communist censorship and harassment of intellectuals in Eastern Europe? Or was it avoiding the selection of more celebrated and more militant Czech dissidents, notably the exiled Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and Playwright Vaclav Havel (A Private View...
...daily shot or two of alcohol. "The evidence is indirect," reports Epidemiologist Stephen Hulley of the University of California at San Francisco, "but social drinkers have HDL levels as much as 33% higher than those found in teetotalers." On a more sober note, U.C.S.F.'s Dr. Richard Havel warns: "Anyone who recommends raising HDL by drinking is playing with fire." Stress too has a detrimental effect. Studies have shown that the cholesterol levels of medical students peak at exam time, while accountants hit their high point around April...