European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                An old Bow Lietta being driven out of Steinl Ticken enclave on Access Road in 1967, rounds of the divided City. Residents have been successful in getting a parking ban approved that allows parking by outsiders Only along the Access Road. The West Berlin government has also promised to keep the Village character of the former enclave in mind when considering future development offers on the one third of the town it owns Bohlmann said. Stei Stucken today is a Community beset with the kind � concerns familiar to Many Small towns. Older residents worry about preserving the character of the Village that has Bome an expensive suburb popular Wilh Young professionals working in West Berlin. Proposed construction of a new Road within he Village has replaced fee Access to Wesl Berlin As the hottest Issue among residents the current Road controversy began at about the same Lime the Access Road was built Bohlmann said. When the new Road is Complete higher property taxes will be assessed each property owner based on the amount of frontage he or she owns along the new Road. The Issue has divided the residents because on one hand property values will soar once the Road is finished. On the other hand longtime residents who cannot Ali Ord the tax increase will be forced to sell part Otheir properly to pay for the improvement. Suspicion exists that the Road project is a Means for outside developers to gel their hands on More real estate in the tight Stel Stucken Market. The old timers reason i hat the Good limes have finally come to Stein Stucken. And where were the newcomers during the bad times it s not like it once was said resident Vara Wilese. Bach then we ail knew each  courting in Stei Stucken f or Ralph Sanchez and his Wile Margret the cold War was not without its  was a Corporal Wilh the 2b7th Marco in Wasl Berlin in 1964 Whan he was assigned to his first Stei Stucken patrol. Armed Wilh an m-3 sub machine gun a ,45-caliber pistol and wearing a flak Vest. Sanchez would walk one Side of the Border while the East germans walked the other. The former Margrit Wiese was a Young girl growing up in Slein Stockan when she awoke one sunday in August 1961 to find that the half mile separating her Little Village from the Resl of West Berlin had become a death strip. Although she would be allowed to walk through lha barbed wire barricades to West Berlin As a Holder of a special pass her future american husband s Only Way in was by helicopter. Whan Ralph Sanchez came courting in steins Lucken he literally dropped in. Margrit Sancho said she first met the Young my who would become her husband one Day when the americans were playing with some local children and one boy was injured. Ralph Sanchez picked up the child and took him Home to explain what had happened. Margrill went along and the two hit it off. A cold War Romance was not without problems the couple said one big problem was the hoi War going on thousands of Miles away in Vietnam that claimed Ralph Sanchez As a participant in 1966. He resumed to Berlin in 1968, nourished by the German delicacies shipped to him in Vietnam by the Wiese family. Sanchez by then a sergeant had to wangle copter try 28. 1986 rides into the Stei Stucken exclave. Instead of going Home i elected to Lake my leave in Stei Stucken he said from his Home in Birndorf. Near Nurnberg. Where the couple and their two children now live. When Ralph was unable to drop in Margrill would meal him at the Kohlhas Sunbrock Border checkpoint in a forested Section of West Berlin the flowering Romance Between a Young German girl and an american go did not go unnoticed by the East germans who studied Margrif  each Lime she made the trip to West Berlin at limes the future mrs. Sanchez was subjected to minor harassment she said. They knew everything. Even irom the Lowers they watch you with binoculars said Sanchez. It was  on a Normal duly Day Sanchez would walk the perimeter of the tiny Village and watch his East German counterparts at work. They in turn watched him watching them. Three escapes were attempted while Sanchez was in sell Stucken but he said he was on y Ever close enough to hear the shots. A Cross near the beginning of the Road out to steins Lucken Marks one unsuccessful attempt Sanchez was close to in 1965. Residents recall that successful escapees were bundled up in . Army clothing and rushed Oul to helicopters for the Jaunt to Wesl Berlin. The first such slight carrying seven escapees in