European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Looking Dowson 5sj is it if feh by Peter Kuhrt staff writer seen from the air the cruel slash of the Wall and barbed wire across the Midriff of the City loses much fits naked ugliness. Sometimes you even have to look Forit from a height of about 800 feet the death strip seems no More than carefully raked Field Concrete tank traps look like toys and the Wal throws hardly a Shadow. Yet the Peculiar situation of Berli manifests itself plainly enough from the rear seats of a Wuhib Huey helicopter from the army aviation Del stuttering along the jagged Zigzag line that Sepa rates West from East Berlin. Prejudice May play a trick on the imagination but the impression is definite on our the Western Side things seem lighter busier cleaner More  contrast beyond the Wall Gray a particularly depressing Gray is the predominant color and Gray is the snood that hangs Over everything like a soil drag Sunshine or no. East Berlin is a City of More than a is photos by Ted Rohde million people yet you find yourself training to detect details of Fife a trickle of cars the weather Varjas of smoke and steam rising from factories and Power plants and just a few people ant like in the distance. Here and there the drab picture i punctuated by new office and fart ment buildings Bright and functional especially in the government Quarter around Unter Den Linden the  that terminates at he bran Denburg Gate and is East Berlin s embassy Row. And in the distance at Alexander plat a half completed television Tower stabs through the Haze already higher than any Structure East or West and visible from just about any Point in the City. It will be East Berlin s newest landmark 1,188 feet High when finish Din 1970. The men of Berlin brigade s army aviation det who run he helicopter patrols Don t concern themselves much with the intriguing Panorama stretching beneath their slowly cruising sight seeing platforms. Their Job is strictly the Aerial surveil Lance of the Border surrounding West Berlin like a noose Miles of fortifications that have become virtually escape  whirl Bird patrols supplement other Border reconnaissance missions on the ground run by the Berlin brigade jeep patrols by two infantry battalion Sand bout patrols on Border Waterways by military  flights have been on a regular. Basis since the late 1940s, but the gained added significance when the East German regime built the Wall in 1961.the Small detachment keeps its Fleet verse Haungs Church door faces neat new Wall built by East old Wall on Bernauer Strasse of shop fronts Hoh be torn Down. Junction of Bernauer and Schwed Fen streets is favorite spot for visitors to take a peek into East Berlin from safety of West. A in m us him ill / Cron certain of dive Alo but generally we jul t reopen trying to Obs Mej along the communist w  Tho typical ten oho thew copter May to loan our any time Day or Nib ways varies to keep a no  invoke re