Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy-making decision is that it must be made before all the facts are in; if it is not, it becomes not a policy decision but a retrospective analysis of events that have already become history. The most-difficult and dangerous art of policy making always consists of a leap into the uncertainties of the future. To liberals, such a leap may seem dogmatic; but only through a willingness to take such leaps will Americans liberals stop writing about history and start making it. Frederick Dietz...
...China's Mao Tse-tung and his Central Committee held their Tenth Plenary Session in Peking last week. Without giving any supporting figures, a communiqué reported industrial and agricultural production as "this year again slightly better." Reasons for such a disappointingly small leap forward: natural disasters, "spontaneous tendency toward capitalism among part of the small producers," and "incompetence of some leading cadres." Two oldtime comrades of Chairman Mao were bounced from the Central Control Commission, no reason given...
When the pair made their dash early one afternoon last week, Fechter's friend managed to climb the six-foot-high barrier and leap over the barbed wire on top. But Fechter paused for a few fatal seconds, long enough for the Grenzpolizei (border police) to raise their weapons and fire. Shot in the back by crossfire. Fechter fell back onto the death strip only 300 yds. from Checkpoint Charlie, the U.S. command post at the busy Friedrichstrasse border crossing...
Four days after the anniversary explosion, an East German youth who tried to leap the Wall was shot down by the Grepos and left bleeding for almost an hour before he died within sight of a horrified crowd of West Berliners. Though U.S. sentries legally could have crossed the border and rescued the writhing refugee, they remained on the Western side of the Wall. U.S. Commandant Major General Albert Watson sent an angry note to his Soviet opposite number, protesting this "barbaric inhumanity"; there was no indication that the Russians were the least bit interested. Within 30 minutes...
...specially selected toughs from Saxony whom East Berliners bitterly call "the fifth occupying power." In contrast to Vopos, who have been known to look the other way during an escape, the Saxons shoot to kill without a second thought. Even so, an average of ten East Germans a day leap, crawl, dig or swim their way to freedom. One couple even floated its infant across the Havel River in a bathtub. Since the Wall went up a year ago, 12.000 refugees have made it safely out of the Soviet zone; 49 who tried to reach West Berlin have died...