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Down Tools. Through this leak in the Iron Curtain, the very lifeblood of East Germany dribbles out at a steady, undiminished rate. Almost 75% of the escapees are under 45-the very age group that Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht needs most to boost production and fulfill East Germany's role as one of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest trade partners and source of much of the Communist bloc's heavy machinery...
Last month Strongman Walter Ulbricht himself took a hand in the matter and ordered party followers to "determine what are the reasons behind the migration . . . and take steps to correct them." Trouble is that Communism's proven means of sealing borders-land-mined strips, barbed-wire barriers and machine-gun-equipped watchtowers-cannot be used in Berlin, where most of the defections take place, because four-power regulations governing the city require sectoral borders to remain open, and the elevated and subway trains link Eastern and Western parts of the city...
...East German aircraft industry was a prestige project ramrodded through in 1954 by Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht himself. Jeering at West German airlines for buying foreign planes, the East Germans poured $150 million into outfitting six plants, which at their peak employed some 26,000 workers turning out Russian null In 1959, with much fanfare, the East Germans brought out their new, home-grown 66-152 turbojet airliner. The first 86-152 prototype crashed on its maiden flight-a disaster that was officially attributed to "sabotage" by Designer Manfred Gerlach (TIME, Sept. 12). While other engineers have been trying...
...Uruguay and Chile-as well as from Albania, Indonesia and North Korea. Some delegations apparently split-e.g., Argentina's intellectual Communist wing leaned to Liu, while its old-line trade unionists backed Moscow. At least one delegation played it down the middle: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht professed devotion to Khrushchev but wanted a tougher policy on Berlin...
...captive chieftains from the Bleak Lands of Double Think. The men Khrushchev chose to accompany him to the U.N. are the ones who wield real power in Russia's European satellites-though only two hold formal government offices. Of the satellite bosses, only East Germany's Walter Ulbricht is missing: he had to be left behind because his nation does not belong to the U.N. For the West, their arrival is a rare opportunity for firsthand inspection of the ruthless survival experts who rule 79,633 million enslaved Eastern Europeans. The roll call...