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N.Y.U., last year's team champion, found revenge by sweeping the three individual weapon titles. In sabre, Paul Apostol took all five of his final round bouts. Apostol beat Penn's Todd Makler after losing to him in the team sabre competition. Another junior, George Masin, beat Navy's Frank Hewitt and Penn's Ron McMahan in two fence-offs for the epee crown. The foil titlist--Mike Gaylor--is also a junior. N.Y.U. should be invincible next year...
Originally, the three were five, all Czechs: two brothers, Ctirad and Josef Masin, in their early 20s; a friend, Milan Baumer, 22, a military cadet; Zbynek Janata, 30, a factory executive; and Vaclav Svejda, 30, a disappropriated landowner. Armed with one revolver of about .35 caliber, two smaller automatics and 52 cartridges-arms hidden since World War II-the group formed up in Prague. Early in October they crossed the Czech-East German frontier at night. They were almost due south of Berlin and some 130 air miles away...
...distance on foot, living on apples and potatoes. They sold a silver cigarette case, a watch and two sweaters for train fare. At Uckro, only 40 miles from Berlin, they had their first gun fight with the Vopos (People's Police). "As we were leaving the station," Ctirad Masin recounted later, "Vopos suddenly confronted us and asked for identification . . . My brother and I drew our guns and started shooting. Three of the Vopos fell, and the others fled, as did all the bystanders. Then we ran . . . Later we realized that Janata was missing. We heard from some East zone...
...railroad bridge, the three got into another gun fight with police. Baumer was hit in the belly and groin-and later, in still another gun fight, in the hand-but was able to keep going. When they reached an outlying station of the city's elevated railway, Ctirad Masin, who hid under a car, made it to West Berlin in one jump. The other two got there safely a little later. Thus three brave men had outwitted and humiliated thousands of Communist police...
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