Word: zone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move was flashed to duty officers at U.S. headquarters in West Berlin. Not satisfied with damming up the flow of refugees from East Berlin, the Reds now blandly announced restrictions on Westerners who wanted to enter the eastern half of the city. From that time on, said the East-zone radio, a West Berliner would have to get a pass and use only selected border crossings; "foreigners," i.e., Western Allied civilians and officials, would be allowed to use only one route for entering and leaving East Berlin. This was violation enough of the Four Power agreements guaranteeing free movement throughout...
Academic Mistake. Through much of 1944, U.S. Ambassador to Britain John Winant pleaded with Washington to plan ahead, to insist on detailed provisions for Western access to Berlin as part of the occupation-zone system being engineered by EAC-the European Advisory Commission (the U.S., Britain, Russia), to which Winant was U.S. delegate. But the War Department opposed a specific agreement on Berlin access routes, argued that it would be best to leave the problem to the soldiers on the scene. When General Lucius Clay, acting as General Eisenhower's representative, finally met with Soviet General Georgy Zhukov...
...named, of all things, Wallstrasse-Wall Street. From these few dingy rooms, the faithful Ulbricht, now sporting a wispy mustache and a pointed little Lenin beard, sent his agents fanning out to grab control-first of the Berlin city administration, then of every town and city in the Soviet zone...
Cops and Robbers. Ulbricht's formidable stamina kept his colleagues on an 18-hour workday, and his astonishing memory enabled him to pull the names and addresses of hundreds of loyal Communists out of an ever ready mental file. "When we set up the East Zone's first Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs," recalls Wolfgang Leonhard, a member of Ulbricht's original Berlin group who has since defected to the West, "Ulbricht assigned every department head and his staff-some 40 appointments, down to the motor-pool boss-in about an hour...
Last week the official German Communist youth organ, Young World, gave vent to its chagrin. It ungallantly charged the U.S. with rigging the contest to call attention to East Germany's refugee problem: "It fitted wonderfully-an East Zone girl who 'chose freedom' and is beautiful, too." In East Germany, Marlene had been respected as an engineer, cried Young World indignantly, while in the West only her bust, waist and hips (36½-23-36) won admiration. And anyway, the newspaper warned Marlene, "You will only reign one year until the next contest...