Berlin: Distractions at the Wall

The border guards on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall could hardly believe their eyes. There, across the barrier in West Berlin, stood a lissome girl methodically taking off her clothes. Military caution was forgotten as the Grepos stared in undisguised glee. Too late did they hear a scuffling noise at an unprotected spot along the Wall 200 yds. away and notice a dim figure dashing from its shadow. One more East German had escaped to the West, and last week a Red officer denounced the stripteaser's distracting "provocation" in the...

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