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Word: u-bahn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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...been working on Iron Curtain affairs since 1955 and was in Hungary during the 1956 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

Rooms with a View. But most were frustrated by Ulbricht's meticulous Communist planning. Even as the open street crossings were being barricaded, other squads raced to lock the gates of the S-bahn (elevated) and of the ten major U-bahn (subway) stations that serviced trains traveling into West Berlin. Guards were posted in the pitch-dark U-bahn tunnels to halt the more imaginative sneakers. After a helmeted Vopo guard at the new barrier leaped across the barbed wire and escaped to the West, East German officers began keeping their enlisted men several yards from the wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Wall | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

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