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Word: schieber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antipersonnel mines and automatic-firing machine guns that are triggered by an electronic eye and set up to hit, variously, at knee, head or chest level. One part of the old system remains: hungry police dogs on long wire leashes still roam along the fence. Muttered Cadet Wade Schieber, a West Point third-year man assigned to summer border-patrol duty: "It's hard to imagine the dreadfulness of this until you see it. It sure isn't any New York-New Jersey state line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: G.I. Watch on a Deadly Border | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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