Word: sector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven weeks after Communist Gerhart Eisler sneaked out of the U.S. as a stowaway, his wife Brunhilde, 37, set off in style last week to join him in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Because she was being deported (for overstaying her visitor's permit), the U.S. Government had to lay out $468.09 for her airline ticket. Even so, she was feeling a little miffed...
Though it stands in Berlin's U.S. sector, the big red brick building that houses Berlin's railway administration is occupied by Russians. One night last week small groups of striking transport workers sidled up to the building. At the entrance they disarmed two guards, rushed inside. While some strikers brandished guns at a door (see cut) behind which Russians were barricaded, 200 other strikers stampeded through the building, tore pictures of Lenin and Stalin from the walls. Only when four Russian officers, enraged by this desecration, screamed " 'Raus, 'raus!" (Out, out) and beat down...
...strikers offered to man certain switch-boxes from the Western zones into Berlin's Western sectors, while still blocking Soviet trains bound for the Russian sector. The Russians indignantly refused. Their German stooges said they were ready to pay 60% of the workers' wages in West marks. The strikers said no. They demanded all their pay in West marks-the demand which had precipitated, the strike. When Russian violence failed, it looked as if the strike might go on for a while. U.S. and British planes stepped up their airlift loads to 8,000 tons a day. Berliners...
...Sunday at Charlottenburg, in the British sector, a crowd of 2,000, some of them young toughs between eight and 16 who had no connection with the union, stormed up the station's sandy slope to capture a train bringing Communists from the Soviet sector to occupy stations down the line. A striker leaped into the engineer's cab, slammed on the brake. As the train bumped to a halt, Communist cops began shooting into the crowd. Four times the station changed hands; twelve were seriously wounded. Finally German police from the British sector took over. The Communist...
This week, after at least one death and a total of 1,200 injured, the strikers still held some of the West sector stations, but the Red railway administration, which by then had run in hundreds of strikebreakers and guards, seemed in no mood to give in to their demands. Said Union Official Christian Hanebuth: "We cannot fight on physically against their guns." But next day, 3,000 strikers and their sympathizers went right on fighting, tried to storm the railway station at the Berlin Zoo. Communist police fired on them, killing a 16-year-old boy. British authorities sharply...