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Digging by Day. It began in Glienicke, a village among the open fields on the northern fringe of Berlin, just inside Communist territory. There, a small group determined to flee to the West, despite the Wall, which in their area consists of a double barbed-wire fence patrolled by tommy-gun-toting guards. Escape seemed impossible until one of the villagers had an idea: Why not go underground? A stucco house stood empty only 20 ft. from the wire. Soon shovels were biting through the cellar wall and into the sandy soil. The digging was not difficult, but only...
...Moslem veteran was pulled from his wheelchair and murdered, while near the city's imposing Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, European teen-agers gleefully urinated on the body of another slain Moslem. Near Algiers, a French jeweler was "executed" as a traitor by the S.A.O. because he planned "to flee the country when it was in danger." At industrial Bone, where 1,500 years ago St. Augustine preached the City of God, a bomb destroyed a Moslem tenement, killing ten women and children, and Europeans drove off rescuers with rocks and pistol shots...
...after alerting two 2,000-ton Dutch frigates in the area, the Neptune dropped flares over the torpedo boats and was greeted with a salvo of antiaircraft fire. The Dutch ships' radar-locked 5-in. guns replied, sinking one of the Indonesian craft and forcing the others to flee. After giving chase, the Dutch ships rescued 52 survivors; about 30 Indonesians drowned, including Commodore Sudarso, deputy naval chief of staff...
...plows, just as the masses of escaping East Germans (3,500,000, or 20% of the population since 1945) had voted against him with their feet. The Berlin Wall has sharply curbed but not entirely halted the exodus from East Germany; about 1,500 a month still manage to flee. Ulbricht publicly admitted last week that the purpose of the Wall had been to halt the flight and its debilitating effects on the East German economy. In a revealing year-end article in Moscow's Pravda, he tried to put all the blame on Western intrigue. "There were considerable...
...chiefly intended to help the commercial banks compete more successfully with mutual savings banks, whose rates run as high as 3¾%. and with savings and loan associations, whose rates run up to 4½%. A secondary purpose: to help the banks hold foreign deposits that might otherwise flee to higher interest havens abroad, thereby increasing the outflow of gold from...