East and West may talk of détente, but along the Berlin Wall the dominant sound is still the staccato of the machine gun. Almost every night the "Grepos," East Germany's infamous border police, turn on their searchlights and open up at a fugitive real or imagined, who they think is trying to cross into the West.
When the Grepos began firing long, sustained bursts last week, several hundred residents of the French sector rushed to their windows and balconies to watch the tragic drama below. On the death strip, which at night is...
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