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...specifics, both Kennedy and Rusk wandered off into generalities. Yet, for all their inadequacy in verbalizing their feelings, both men were, in fact, reflecting a growing sense of change in the balances of the cold war. For years, cold-war relationships had seemed drawn up along a sort of Maginot line, with fixed sides, fixed positions and fixed personalities. Now that line was breached, and with its breaching had come a period of fluidity and flexibility. There were hazards ahead, but also opportunity...
Prospects selected, the procedure is to make contact. The telephone is the first entering wedge in a bastion as impermeable as the Maginot Line...
...Marxist Maginot. At the Potsdamer Platz, which was Berlin's Times Square before the Wall truncated it, visiting sightseers mount wooden stands to gawk at the bare, dead city beyond. "In one quick look," they nod, "you can see what Communism is like." Berliners proudly point out each place where the Wall has been breached: eight celebrated holes in the ground where East-West tunnelers surfaced; the spot on the River Spree where 14 East Berliners turned pirate and steered an excursion boat to freedom. On the Wall's grey blocks of compressed rubble they scrawl elaborate imprecations...
Though the Wall itself ends in the U.S. sector, at East Germany's Schonefeld airport, watchtowers and barbed-wire barriers also seal the city's 65-mile western border with the Soviet zone. And that does not count the 830-mile Marxist Maginot line that seals East Germany's western frontier from the Baltic to Czechoslovakia. This is what Walter Ulbricht cynically calls the Democratic Anti-Fascist Protection Wall; already it boasts 500 watchtowers, 1,000 fortified bunkers, 93 miles of minefields, and throughout its length, the wide, plowed strips of earth where a footprint...
...Bethe, the special committee of which made the preliminary of the Soviet tests last Fall, a speech at Cornell on "Thus I think AICBM [anti continental ballistic missile] is ally hopeless. . . ." Further, entitled to make an overall the nature of the international One could responsibly compare weapons to the Maginot Line clude that technical improvement comparatively unimportant...