Word: tempelhofer
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...West confrontation occurred in isolated Berlin, when the Soviets suddenly shut down all roads, rails and waterways in an effort to starve the city into submission. The U.S. and Britain responded with an unprecedented airlift. Bright C-54s and battered C-47s touched down at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport at a daytime rate of one every three minutes. At its peak, these allies ferried a record of 12,940 tons of fuel and food in one day during what they called "Operation Vittles." After ten months the Soviets opened the ground corridors to the West again, but Berlin...
Through the bitter German winter of 1948, West Berliners were kept alive by the Berlin airlift, a dramatic cold war counterploy to surmount a Soviet-inspired blockade of the city. Two million tons of food, fuel and clothing were flown into Tempelhof and other airports by U.S. and British cargo planes on 277,569 flights over a 15-month period. This year, with two-thirds of the U.S. under the siege of winter, Berliners responded with aid of their own. In a month-long Help America fund drive that ends this week, they raised $500,000 to help the American...
...both inconvenience and security expenses added to their tickets. In Munich, the Bavarian Interior Ministry demands written guarantees that arriving passengers at Riem Airport have been searched before takeoff. When airlines refuse such guarantees, their planes are ordered to an isolated runway, and passengers and luggage are thoroughly examined. Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin uses a code to indicate to air crews if any embarking passengers are Arab. At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, overhead walkways have been closed off, and armed soldiers patrol them. Most airports have marks men on hand with orders to shoot to kill if anything...
People complain often about crime and the mounting numbers of foreigners--mostly Turks--and many walk out only with their German shepherds. There is something unreasonably disturbing about the jets that suddenly roar up from Tempelhof over the city center, or the patrolling helicopters close to the border. The East still has the air of an armed camp: soldiers everywhere; temporary kitchens, tents and loudspeakers for a world youth festival; topless ruins...
...privilege. If East Germany really intends to attract Western airlines, it will have to raise Interflug's subsidized fares on competing routes, and that in turn might well make Schönefeld less attractive to travelers. But even the highly preliminary talks held so far suggest that Tempelhof and the three Western powers are not likely to be able to keep West Berlin traffic to themselves indefinitely...