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Kisiel outlined a number of possible reforms to remedy the situation: some industrial decentralization, a better balance of goods and money in the marketplace, increased production of consumer goods, and the transfer of about $200 million to the agricultural sector to boost sagging food production. One key reform he proposed will be hard for the people to accept: an overall price rise, which sparked the strikes in the first place...
...refined and modernized continually. According to Western estimates, the East Germans have invested well over $7 billion in building and maintaining the barrier. "They now have third-generation equipment in place," says Major Karl Ball, deputy commander of the Bundesgrenzschutz, West Germany's border police, in the central sector. "It has always been difficult for people to escape. Now it is nearly impossible...
Some escapes have been ingenious. Last year two families fashioned a homemade hot air balloon out of bedsheets and curtain strips and sailed silently over the fence to freedom by night in the southern border sector. But most who manage to get across today are either disaffected members of the 42,000-strong East German border guard force or people living near the border who are told by sympathetic guards about spots along the fence where mines have been temporarily removed for maintenance. In May a young couple scrambled over the fence at an unmined spot in the central sector...
Others are not so lucky. Last month there was an outbreak of automatic weapons fire one night in the central sector. No death has been reported, but a farmer on the western side says...
...heartbreaking," concedes Colonel John Sherman Crow, 43, commander of the U.S. llth Armored (Black Horse) Cavalry Regiment, which is charged with border surveillance in the central sector at Fulda. "But we are forbidden to interfere until someone actually gets across the line. And we must make sure that we don't violate that line on patrol, not with a single footprint, tire track or rotor blade." Crow assigns daily helicopter patrols to fly "the trace," as the border is known, always with specially trained pilots. Ground patrols operate within a few feet of the frontier, occasionally augmented...