European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 7, 1s3b the stars and stripes Page 9 control Are Light and the atmosphere is always tense Al Berlin s famous line of demarcation  Easl and Wesl. The eyes never rest at checkpoint Charlie by Jok map other staff Nuller Berlin a s Quad of East German Border guards advancer a inward the group of nighttime protesters huddled along the while line thai separates  from Weil at checkpoint Charlie and begins firing away with powerful Flash units on their cameras flashpoint checkpoint Charlie. Al Leam until a Western photographer flashes Back a signal to the camera shy guards who turn i hair backs apparently under the order of la Cir commander and Wall Back behind the Wall their government claims was built for Protection against the writ. Cast and West. Checkpoint Charlie has come to symbolize that geographical demarcation line in Ber Lin flashpoint checkpoint Charlie wednesday oct. 25, 1%i. Two Young american military policemen drive Pavi the checkpoint in civilian clothes in a car bearing official american plates. East German peo Ples 1 Clicc Hall the vehicle when the occupants re few to show their passports. The principle Al slake is the Allied Contention thai Berlin is a four Power occupied City and nil Allied Powers Hsu right of Access to All four sectors. The americans return to the checkpoint and pick up an escort of three army jeeps packed with armed . They drive past the i month old Berlin Wall to the East German checkpoint and this Lime no move is made to Stop the vehicle which drives on into the East. A half hour later 10 tanks from co of 40th Armor and a Trio of armoured personnel carriers rumble up Friedric Strasse and take up positions near the Check Point. Two a s later the russians answer by sending 10 of thei r tanks to face off with the americans. The Falcoff would go on for months. On a wednesday night 21 years later pvt. 2. Gregory Kundt. 20, of Burlington wis., watches the photographers snap away a the demonstrators in is his first night on the Job. The tank probes of 1961 were seven years before Skrundz slim. The reflection off sounds boots from he harsh lie i that keeps checkpoint Charlie in perpetual Day Light attests to the spit and polish that goes Inlo a checkpoint my s uniform. Everything is in place be cause the cameras arc always on a Battery of Long lubes containing by lenses faces West 10 Greet the invasion of Western visitors. There Are cameras on rooftops. There Are cameras inside guard towers. Human eyes arc glued to binoculars. Showtime Berlin. And for checkpoint maps that Means look ing Sharp. Skrundz puts on his White my hat and leaves the Ira Clor trailer size checkpoint building standing in the Middle of the Friedrichs Iassc to Check the vehicle Ofa  leaving East Berlin. His French and British colleagues glance at the i flashbulbs in the night Are no big Deal. This is camera City. Cense plate to see who is on Call for this one and g Bacic to their paper work. In is midweek and quiet flashbulbs in the night arc no big Deal this is camera City. Anil there Almust always is someone standing Al the Ehatt Point to make a Point about East West relations. There Are regulars. This is the place the other american on duly is staff set. David Hadley no in charge of the checkpoint. The 40 year old native of Panama fla., leans Back and reminisces. He pulled his first 12-hour checkpoint shift in August. Joe Werner of Long Island n.y., showed up aug. 13, the anniversary of the building of the Wall to demonstrate against the brutality it Symbol Iro. It was his seventh visit and the first time Hadley met him. Harald Roslnberger a travelling Farmer making the rounds and the news last summer with his cow. Rosa showed up a couple of weeks after Werner and tried of Cross Inlo it East. The East germans nixed thai visit. Hadley relates. Every Day. Helmut inc sch comes Down and looks East tic used to run a tailor shop on the Western Side of the  and had the ill Fortune 10 be in the West the Day before the Wall was built. Hadley said. Knesch s family is in the East. He has t been Able to make it Back  Haricy  was ill recently and his absence was noticed by the West Berlin police who operate a control Point near the checkpoint building. The Polisei went looking for him because he had t shown up Hadley said. There have been escape attempts. Hadley said. Some make it. Some Don t. He ponders Why. Last sep tember a polish nun wailed until his bus was at the East German control Point before jumping out and trying to Toofil Back to the West. Indecision can Cost. Hadley and sound arc two of roughly ont do in maps who work checkpoint Charlie and checkpoint Bravo the one military travellers process through when they enter Berlin from West Germany. They Are be i cited from the ranks of the 287ih my co. Winners of the 1987 Jeremiah p. Holland award As the army s lop police unit. Nol a bad labor Pool to draw from when spit and polish is on the Job description. Selection is made by maj. Lawrence Bronstein and staff sgt. Michael Vount the i Timander and the no in charge of the Berlin Access Section of the pro Vost marshal s office. Bron slain was at Check Point Charlie wednesday going Over plans for locating fact hires to Check cars and Brief visitors in a new building part of the City s renovation plan to Spruce up the dilapidated area sur rounding the checkpoint. Duty Down Here can go from moments of boredom to Surk terror without ton much warning Bronstein said. That s Why the Guy Down Here has got to Ham his wits about  because the cameras Are Alwa s on Thatcher visits Tunnel project Calls it our future Dover. England Lap More than 130 feet under the sea at the controls Ofa giant Drill. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher on Friday edged the English Chinn Tunnel a Rocci nearer France declaring i is our  by the Lime this one is completed in 1993. The business going through it will be so great we will Jolly Well have to build another one said Thatcher. She did the drilling Al the face of a service Tunnel which forms the initial stage on the English Side of the si0.6 billion project which will link Britain and France under the Channel. Thatcher making an on site inspect lion at this South English port look Over the machine where workmen Are burrowing through White Chalky Clay from which the world War ii song the while Cliffs of Dover took its  31-mile Tunnel will provide the first fined link Between Britain and France. British and French engineers working from each end Are due 10 meet at mid Channel in i�9u. This tuned project is something the whole of the United kingdom should be proud of it is our  said Thatcher. I am absolutely  she added i m sure it will make Jung scr much Keener to Eam therency language if they know there is fined link brim Cen the iwo