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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, July 7, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday. July 7,1986 spec. 4 John Wherry sits atop the military poll patrolling the american sector of Berlin s wan see. Bern maps my a ration cruises Lake continued from Page 1 arc formal but not hostile accords of to the Crew of the military police boat. We More or less  each other s exis tence a nod when we Tafoy close enough to be seen. Thai s about the cmdr unit Wherry said. Wherry and Dennis recce training in water safety life saving and relate teas before taking the boat assignment which is of of several unusual military police Mission Handomy the 287lh my co. Wherry worked tru Crlin duty train before taking the patrol boat assign rat and Dennis wore the special uni form Ofa  military  jogging san worn aboard the patrol boat were selected Becaj Fohey can be discarded quickly should the soldiers we to jump into the water and they soften the iry Btry presence in a recreation  the military police boat Job in 1974 after he tired Orple constant travel associated with captaining Anver bag along the Rivers of West Germany. The Atrol boat is powered by an eight  engine capable of 225 horsepower and a top of 38 knots he said. The boat will travel 30 to 40during regular patrols and occasional escort duty Mulwitz said. Prillw supplies the voice that booms out Over the loud speaker Tow am German boaters away from the Border. When the Antis Laid up in Winter he does the necessary maintenance prepare for another summer of patrols. This summits the first and last one aboard the boat for Dennis Ltd Wherry. The duty is rotated each year. Wherry Sak weekend work i Art of the Job when they Are off on monday there silk military police presence on the Lake. Their workday 3svts at 11 . And ends at 7 . In Between their Tor three two hour patrols Aday they practice the skin Wiley need on the Waterways of Berlin. Dennis said. _ irly pass the Skyline of dec Over which u-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers Crossd in 1962 and this year. Soviet dissident Anatoly in Feranski crossed to he West after their release by the Cliet Union. The lonely sight of the Hiland Skinkis also along the route. West berliners used to Cross to thnh urch by ferry before the Border was closed in 1961,  the Church stands empty on the vre of the Havet River Between the guarded  stand the buoys in the River. It is Only one of sight along a most unusual duly tour. When on patrol they Potsdam and the Glenicke give me Liberty or new York up tourists poured Onlo Liberty Island again sunday and Park service rangers who drove angry visitors out of the rejuvenated statue of Liberty Early on its opening Day said they were ready for a crowd of 18.000 on the first full Day of Tours. Disorganization no one in the Park service for instance could agree on the Normal closing time resulted in the ugliest scene of an otherwise euphoric Liberty weekend. Sightseer piled up at the docks in Battery part for a ferry to the Island sunday morning and the wait for the $3.25 ride to the Island rapidly increased to two hour. In the weekend s big athletic Endeavor More than450 stalwarts leaped off Liberty Island sunday into polluted new York Harbor on the first leg of the Liberty to Liberty triathlon. They clambered ashore in new Jersey complaining of debris and jellyfish hopped dripping wet onto Bicy cles and peddled off toward Philadelphia where the will abandon their wheels and run five Miles through the City to the Liberty Bell. Park service officials were unable to give a coherent reason for closing the statue Early saturday other than that they received Many More visitors than they Evi Dently expected. Liberty Island superintendent David Moffit said we pretty much lost control of the Low of people on the Island. 1 Here were so Many people on the Island  he said the Island was ready for 18,000 Visi tors sunday. Saturday was the first Day the Public could visit the statue since it closed for renovation 54 weeks ago and the Park service said 11,000 people showed up on the ferries that run every half hour. Communication with the Circle line boat bringing visitors to the Island failed and the last boat arrived just As rangers were shooing out what they thought were the final visitors. When the last Boatload of visitors discovered the statue was being closed Many were indignant and re fused to leave. About a dozen people refused to Board the last boat out sitting Down on the grass and Moffit said de manding to be arrested. It would have been unconscionable to arrest any one yesterday he said it was a great Day. We Don t want to go around arresting people on a Day like yesterday instead he said rangers relented. We took them Pinto the statue and gave them a Quick tour and they finally agreed to leave Moffit said. They were taken Back to the Mainland on a government boat. So Many people thronged to the statue saturday that there was a four hour wait for elevators. 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