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Some 30 refugees a day are still managing to vault the wall to reach freedom in the West, including in the last three weeks no fewer than 65 Vopos. But a young East German worker, put to felling trees along the Teltow Canal, leaped into the water to try to swim to freedom, was ruthlessly riddled with machine pistol fire-the second refugee to be killed trying to swim to freedom. Next day, despite a hail of bullets, a third swimmer made it. The Vopos promptly strung a double row of barbed wire along the canal...
...revolt, dipped into East Berlin twelve times last week-crossing the border at dawn, dusk and midnight-walking, driving, and once taking a ghostly ride through East Berlin's heavily guarded U-bahn (subway) stations. He also scouted the length of the East-West Berlin border from Teltow Canal in the south to Tegeler Forst in the north, scrambling over rubble and through potato patches, often attracting the nervous attention of the armed border guards. At week's end, Washington Correspondent Loye Miller flew to Bonn and Berlin with Vice President Johnson to augment TIME...
...desperate clusters of East Berliners were still trying to break out to freedom. Only a few were successful. One elderly man and wife crawled on hands and knees across a cemetery near the boundary as "Vopos" strung barbed wire only 20 yds. away. A young married couple swam the Teltow Canal with their four-year-old child perched on his father's shoulders. A couple of East Germans returning from a late movie, saw the tanks, sprinted across to the American sector just in time...
Erich's father was a salesman who had built himself a little stucco house in Teltow, a suburb for Berliners of the lower middle class. Soon after the war was ended, Russian officers came to the house and took Erich's father away...
Flak got five R.A.F. Wellingtons over Berlin the night of Nov. 14, three years ago, and a pilot parachuted into the Teltow Canal near Tempelhof Airport. Middle-aged civilian wardens fished him out, escorted him to a police station. The police gave him hot Ersatzkaffee. The prisoner made a face and everyone laughed...
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