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...specialist in Soviet intelligence with Russian-language training, Nicholson was nearing the end of his three-year tour of duty in Potsdam. Accompanied by Sergeant Jessie Schatz, Nicholson left Potsdam at lunchtime Sunday in a dark green Mercedes bearing an American flag. Both were dressed in camouflage fatigues, and Nicholson carried a set of powerful binoculars and a Nikon camera. They drove about 100 miles north to an area outside the town of Ludwigslust, the site of a training camp for a Soviet tank regiment of the 2nd Guards Division. The Soviets claim that the pair drove onto prohibited territory...
While Schatz raised himself through the Mercedes' sunroof to keep a weather eye, Nicholson walked toward a Soviet tank shed, intending to take photographs through a window. At 3:50 p.m., according to Schatz, a Soviet sentry suddenly appeared from a wooded patch about 100 yards from the men. "Watch out!" shouted Schatz. "Come back!" Without warning, American officials charge, the sentry fired three quick rounds from his AK-47 assault rifle. One of them whistled by Schatz's ear, a second went wide, and the third tore through Nicholson's chest as he turned. "I've been shot, Jess...
...Nicholson was in fact stretching the limits of his privileges as a so-called legal spy: U.S. officials concede that the Soviets had every right to detain him. But he was stretching the boundaries of conduct no further than the Soviets have tried themselves, no doubt successfully on many occasions, in West Germany. Indeed, part of the "cat-and-mouse game," as one Washington official calls the ongoing test of nerve between liaison members and their hosts, is to keep the surveillance teams under close countersurveillance and nab them for infractions. Nicholson was the first liaison member from either side...
...Saturday, as Nicholson was being buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin met for more than an hour with Secretary George Shultz at the State Department in what Dobrynin called an effort "to put this episode behind us." The two agreed that the commander in chief of the Soviet forces in East Germany and the commander in chief of the U.S. Army in Europe will meet to decide how such violent incidents can be avoided in the future. Said a senior U.S. official: "We think the Soviet response is something we can build...
Foolish fellows! If they had just waited a few years, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper could have been really Easy Riders. Instead of discovering America from the jolting seats of their motorcycles, they could have cruised along in the stolid comfort of an RV. With, maybe, the little woman fixing toasted cheese sandwiches in the microwave...