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...become the image of a calm and determined U.S. in Berlin. He has toured East Berlin, passed through the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint, examined the Wall with minute care. He helicoptered to Steinstücken, a little enclave just over the West Berlin border that nevertheless belongs to the U.S. sector. Everywhere West Berliners cheer him. All this is calculated to show that the U.S. will not be pushed around by the Russians. "If we are pushed around and harassed," says Clay, "we have to do a bit of pushing and harassing ourselves...
...weeks ago, the intersection at Berlin's "Checkpoint Charlie" was taut with tension as the U.S.-on order from General Lucius Clay, President Kennedy's representative in West Berlin-sent armed convoys across the border to escort civilian-dressed military personnel into the Russian sector to demonstrate U.S. right of access. But last week, on direct orders from the State Department, the probes were called off. At the same time, Washington stopped U.S. patrols along the 110-mile Autobahn that links West Germany with the divided city. Reason: Secretary of State Dean Rusk was anxious to shift...
...Russian sector, the situation was exactly the opposite. East German police began fitting iron bars across sewer tunnels to block one of the few remaining routes to freedom...
...carriers were rushed to the Friedrichstrasse's "Checkpoint Charlie" as two U.S. Army officers in civilian clothes, driving a grey Opel sedan, were escorted by three Jeeps filled with armed infantrymen through seven blocks of Communist territory. British Centurion tanks moved up to the Brandenburg Gate in their sector of the city...
During the next 48 hours the East Germans got reinforcements: more than 70 Soviet medium tanks, which parked unobtrusively in the side streets near the border crossing, as the U.S. made a fourth sortie into the Russian sector. For one night, U.S. and Soviet tanks squared off at the point-blank range of 200 yards, but both sides lumbered off at morning without incident. It was the first time that Russian tanks had appeared in Berlin since they put down the uprising in June 1953. No word of their presence has appeared in the East German press...