European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Breaching old War barriers 5 Tholo us Tracy bake wort Hir Roundt Salcini Tuchten residents. By Joe Mapother Stafl writer a n occasional . Army jeep can be seen pal oiling the half mile stretch of Load Hal today links the Village of the Island of West 25 years ago there was no such Road and . Army soldiers keeping guard in the Village were flown in by helicopter. Stel Stocken was an Island then Loo in enclave on the wrong Side of the East germans new Walls surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. In the weeks that followed Stei Stucken residents were issued special identification cards that allowed them to Cut across the half mite of former Fores ground thai had been made Over into a cruel Brown Swath of land dotted with Vrasic towers and patrolled Day and night. People would stand at the Gate on the West Berlin Side and they would ask us what is it like in there " said former resident Margret Sanchez. Man buildings were abandoned by their owners Lor the safer environs of West Berlin and land prices Sank to a fraction of their present Worth attracting hordes of land speculators. It was a said Fritz Bohrmann. Either one Kepi the investment or suffered a in a move designed to keep sell Stucken a part of the West and reassure the Village s troubled occupants Gen. Lucius d. Clay flew into the Village by helicopter in september 1961. Declaring thai an american troop presence would remain As Long As needed. Clay postwar Berlin commandant and Al the Lime a special representative of president Kennedy ordered that three Man contingents of military policemen irom the 287lh my co be assigned on four Day Tours. The helicopter was the Only Way in and out. The american a that from above Stel Stocken looks like a town out of me old wild West Bohlmann said. Bohlmann was one of the villagers who negotiated steins Lucken s Day to Day Alfars with East German Border police from 1987 to 1972. When tour Power negotiations were underway to normalize the Sulu Altunin Berlin. Almost 10 years to the Day after Clay made he fir helicopter Landing in the 31-acre enclave the quadripartite agreement was signed on sept. 3,1971.lt specifically mentioned sell Stucken As one of the smal areas where territorial Trade offs could alleviate the situation. In 1972 in agreement was reached to Purchase a 60 foot wide strip of East German land for a Road connecting sell Stucken to the Dehlendorf Section of West Berlin. East German control of land Access into Stel Stucken lad ended. Wild the new Road came further development a bus line noise pollution and crowds of tourists who would Tromp in look around and beat a Hasly Retreat on Ihler Sis Boio by track a Kerttula Bent Mcann mayor of Sonst Siehan a Liny wait Berlin enclave in fan Germany older Tim Dent worry about preferring the Village i character two helicopter Bradet form a memorial recoiling Flay when shop pan were Theony Way in and out of Page 14 the stars and stripes
