Word: autobahn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tail Gates Up. Charles de Gaulle's icy attitude toward the Anglo-Saxons, his insistence on creating a nuclear force de dissuasion and his all-round obstructionism have made the Alphands' job more difficult. But during the autobahn crisis in Germany earlier this month, le grand Charles was momentarily forgotten as Hervé conferred with Ormsby Gore and U.S. officials to hammer out a joint response to the Soviet blockade. "There we are together again," enthused Nicole while discussing the situation with a State Department man. "And we French, we nevair lower our tail gates...
Another barrier, according to Kaysen, is a Russian fear of appearing "soft" towards the West. "The recent Barghoorn arrest and the stopping of U.S. convoys on the Autobahn are two indications of Russian determination to retain an uncompromising image," he said...
Last week it became perfectly plain that the Soviet autobahn harassment was no mere junior officer's misunderstanding. The results, if not a hell of a crisis, were at least a touchy 41 hours and an argument that remains dangerously unresolved. As a Berlin-bound U.S. convoy rumbled into East Germany at 9 one morning, Russian officers at the Marienborn checkpoint refused to let it pass and threw up a blockade of armored personnel carriers and tractor-trailers. It was the fourth such incident in a month along the 110-mile autobahn, and, as Premier Khrushchev told a group...
...insists that the Russians have no right to control allied movement on the autobahn-except to verify that the troops going in and out of West Berlin are really allies. But over the years, to speed up the verification process, the allies have made minor concessions to the Russians...
...last week. At roughly the same time, a 61-troop eastbound convoy and a 73-troop westbound convoy rolled into the autobahn's Marienborn checkpoint. Russian guards not only stopped both convoys but ordered that all the U.S. personnel get out and line up for head counts. Then came one of the oddest impasses of the cold...