European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 the Wall after 24 a permanent look by Joe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau Berlin Twenty four years old the White Concrete Berlin Wall now evident along most of the 72mile Border surrounding the three Western sections of Berlin easily lends itself to sometimes elaborately Spray painted obscenities of the it is in Sharp contrast to the crude whitewashed slogans on cinder lock prevalent two decades or to the obscenity shouting crowds of berliners who watched the first barbed wire strands erected on built to Stem a massive refugee flow from the the Wall today exudes a sense of gone Are the frequent desperate escape although the improved barriers Are still tested by people yearning for a look at the other geor Stephan sch Munzenhofer dodged shots on the american sector Border to make his escape exactly one month he was born six years after the Border was the 18yearold told reporters monday that break ing up with his Girlfriend removed the last barriers holding him in East armed with a he climbed a Fence after dark on july 13 and ran to a spot where he could hide and watch a nearby something was wrong with the spotlight on the Tower it would Flicker on and with periods of darkness nearly a minute using the sch Munzenhofer made a first at tempt to get Over the Wall but turned Back when he saw five Metal about Finger protruding from the ground on the other forty minutes shortly before 2 he climbed the ladder to the top of the Wall and jumped across the dirt stretch to an Asphalt path in no mans an alarm Siren went off As he raced to the first of two fences and attempted to climb sch Munzenhofer his second try was successful As two shots rang he hid in the undergrowth on the other Side As several vehicles driven by Border guards come out or ill sch Munzenhofer heard voices the command was accompanied by the sound of an automatic weapon being he by this West Berlin and american military police had they shouted a warning to the East German Border he a Short time the East germans and sch Munzenhofer jumped the last not so Lucky was the unknown person shot and killed last 1 while trying to Cross the Wall in the Center of the Twenty to 30 shots rang out about a body was removed from the no mans land about one hour said a West Berlin police spokes he was the 73rd or 74th Border fatality in and the most a woman apparently was killed in but her death has not been said the police a fresh line inscribed on a memorial Stone along a photo scaffolding covers an area at checkpoint Charlie where the East germans Are building a new processing Bernauer Strasse honors the 1984 but the Stone tells a deeper nine deaths that occurred in the area Are commemorated on the the first seven entries have four of the first seven were killed within the first two months after the Wall was there Are no entries Between 1965 and in another area of the a refugee Center is still in As it has been since according to Dieter of the City health and social 754 people registered at the Center this in july people crossed into West Ber More than 2 million refugees were registered Dur ing the nine years preceding the Walls in the two weeks before an average of people entered West Berlin each Day from the according to army William commander of the two Allied checkpoints in at checkpoint construction of permanent structures appears to be taking Witzel on the Allied pains have been taken to keep checkpoint Charlie in its temporary he inside the Terence Myrlo stands its a feeling of being grateful for being on this Side and proud of what were Merlo said when asked what duty is like at checkpoint everybody should have the Opportunity to come stand in West youngsters walk along the dividing not photo file photo a sign in two languages lets passersby know where the american sector