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Fortnight ago, when the U.S. told the Russians that they could no longer use Checkpoint Charlie as the crossing point for their daily convoy to the Soviet war memorial in West Berlin, the Reds meekly shifted the procession to the shorter route across Sandkrug Bridge in the British sector. Same day, at a meeting of Allied commanders, U.S. Major General Albert Watson proposed that the Russians be instructed to return to using buses instead of the formidable, six-wheeled armored cars that had been brought in to protect Red soldiers from rock-hurling West Berliners last month...
Finally, 24 hours before the allotted deadline, the grinning Russians appeared at Sandkrug Bridge in a red-painted civilian bus with a bilious, pea-green roof. As the bus passed through without incident, the ruckus subsided. Far from solution, however, was the chronic indecision among the Allies, who on a relatively minor issue took two weeks to:1) agree that there was a problem, 2) decide to do something about...
...customs guard at Berlin's West-East Sandkrug Bridge stopped a Ford sedan one evening last week, glanced at the two men inside and gave the customary warning: "You are now crossing into the Soviet sector." The man behind the wheel laughed, said, "That's exactly where we want to go," and drove ahead into East Berlin...
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