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i 1 Ki't i City cut 22A The SUNDAY Tennnstan AUGUST 10. 1986 Passage less restrictive ithough the Berlin Wall Rapid-transit trains pass over the wall and subways run under it But armed sentries block unauthorized East Germans from boarding any West Berlin-bound trains. West Germans must have visas to get off in East Berlin. BERLIN (AP) No longer is East Berlin hermetically sealed behird the wall that went up 25 years ago to keep Easterners in and Westerners out The Berlin Wall has opened slightly in recent years. Easterners who are retired or have extraordinary family circumstances in the West such as funerals or fore World War II, are used mainly by weddings are allowed to visit West West Berliners going from one part of Berlin.

the Western zone to another, but pass- A West Berliner wanting to go to ing through East Berlin. East Berlin must apply two to three In East Berlin, the only boarding days ahead of time at an office staffed point for subways headed to West Ber-; by East German officials in West Ber- lin is the main train station at Friedri-; lin. The office gives visas valid only chstrasse. Armed guards and formal-'for one day. immigration checks keep unauthor- A West Berliner seeking to stay ized East Germans from boarding the longer in East Berlin must write to trains.

East Berlin police four weeks ahead Soldiers of the Allied occupation of time, must have an invitation from powers the United States, Britain, a relative or a friend, and is limited to France and the Soviet Union may 30 visiting days a year. go back and forth without customs West Germans not living in West controls so long as they are in uni-Berlin can go to a wall checkpoint and form. Their dependents must show get a daylong visa on the spot West special cards. Germans seeking to stay longer in Hundreds of tourists also pass daily East Berlin follow the same proce- from West Berlin into East Berlin and dures as a West Berliner. back.

AP Protesters carry wooden Crosses bearing the names of some of those killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall during a march in West Berlin. 3,500 protest the Berlin Wall Late yesterday, between 150 and 200 protesters forced their way through the Checkpoint Charlie crossing into East Berlin and tore down an East German flag from a pole a few yards inside the sector before East German border guards pushed them back. Shortly before midnight, several demonstrators tried to climb onto the tary police pulled them down and sent them away, police said. The wall, hastily erected by Communist East German soliders in the predawn hours of Aug. 13, 1961, marks its 25th anniversary Wednesday.

Police said they detained three people for throwing firecrackers into crowds of people. No one was injured, and the three were later released. About 1,100 protesters gathered in small groups along a central section of the wall where a West Berlin-based human rights group planned to form a The inter-sector subways, built be- Reasonable Rates SHIRLEY SANDERS Clinical Hypnotherapist CALL 333-0901 NOTICE OF SUNSET REVIEW PUBLIC HEARING The Joint Governmtnt Operations Commit-toe will conduct a public homing on the agencies Inted below on Wednesday, August 30, 1986, as part of the Sunset Review of Slate Agencies. The public hearing will bo hold at 9:00 a.m., in Room 14 of the Legislative Plaza, Nashville, Tennessee. AlCOHOUC BEVERAGE COMMISSION LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING ACADEMY, BOARD Of CONTROL, AND PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING COMMISSION The Committee will accept testimony from any person wishing to speak.

mat i urcMd 1 in by a wall Concrete symbolizes East, West division In the early morning hours of Aug. 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall was born of barbed wire and barricades. It grew into a formidable barrier that cute a city in half and remains today a symbol of the ideological division of East and West Here is a report on the Berlin Wall at age 25. KENNETH AUTZ The Associated Press BERLIN Stark and gray In cold concrete, it courses 28 miles the heart of Berlin, across once-busy intersections, city squares and old trolley-car tracks and past the doors of apartment houses. It is the Berlin Wall, erected 25 years ago on Aug.

13, 1961 by a handful of East German soldiers with coils of barbed wire and barricades. Today it Is a bulwark nearly 15 feet high in most places, separating family from family, old friend from, pld friend, Berliner from Berliner, communism from capitalism a monument that symbolizes the differences that divide East and West The Communist East German government calls it an "anti-imperialist protective wall." 7. But among the grafitti scrawled on its western side over the years Is another description. "This is madness." This past winter, an East German electrician named Andreas Bratke dashed through a checkpoint opening and became one of the 4,902 Easterners registered by West Berlin police to have made it safely through, over or under the wall in the quarter century it has been up. Others didn't make it; 73 people are known to have died trying to escape, according to Western statistics.

Some were shot down by East German guards; a few made it but died of gunshot wounds later. East German guards have orders to shoot to kill. No one on the Western side knows how many people were caught or killed on the Eastern side trying to escape "Of course it was dangerous and dumb," the 23-year-old Bratke said recently, recalling that he was repairing alarm systems near the wall Jan. 17 and simply dashed 70 yards through the checkpoint, half-expecting a bullet in the back. "But I knew if I did not takemy chance when I had it, I would spend the rest of my entire life kicking myself," he said in an interview "The wall is not going to come down." In recent years, however, it has opened a bit Selective Easterners can pass through for visits to West Berlin pensioners and people with extraordinary family circumstances, such as funerals or weddings.

West Berliners can go into East Berlin if they apply two or three days ahead of time, but they can stay only a day. Other West Germans can get passes on the spot at checkpoints for day-long visits and can stay longer if they apply as East Berliners do. Non-German tourists also are allowed back and forth and so are military personnel of the United States. Turn to PAGE 23A, Column 1 Portraits 2- 8x10s 3- 15 wallets NOW ONLY $(0)95 oj with coupon V- (reg. 12.95) Children of all ages, adults and groups.

gives you so many portraits for prlcel 956 deposit per advertised .00 sitting fee for each additional CATCH YOU AT YOUR BEST" halves seven-mile human chain, police said. The attempt by the August 1 3 Working Group failed because too few people showed up, they said. U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt ear lier told an outdoor rally: "It is our ideas and values, and our commit ment to them, that will someday overcome this barrier." He likened the wall to a tourniquet applied by East Germany to stem the flow of refugees, particularly skilled workers, to the West. Hundreds of thousands of skilled workers, professionals, most of all young people were voting with their feet for the freedom of the West, Burt said.

The heavily guarded wall, now a thick concrete barrier, runs through the center of Berlin, splitting the city into its communist eastern sector and capitalist Western area. "We cannot and we must not take this unnatural division for granted," Burt said. "Some day," he said, "the wall will be nothing more than one of history's bad memories. The rally was held yesterday in ad vance of the wall's anniversary in the hopes of attracting more protesters. It was organized by the Young Un ion, the youth wing of West Germany's governing Christian Democratic Party and its sister party, the Christian Social Union.

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