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- <text id=90TT3211>
- <title>
- Dec. 03, 1990: World Notes:East-West
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 79
- World Notes
- EAST-WEST
- Beware the Love-Sick Tank
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> On the day East and West officially proclaimed the end of
- the cold war at the Paris summit last week, the once unthinkable
- happened: a Soviet armored vehicle roared across what used to
- be the Iron Curtain smack into downtown Berlin. Following an
- argument with his girlfriend, a 20-year-old Soviet soldier from
- a base in Elstal, west of Berlin, had decided to cool off by
- taking his ACRV M-1974 artillery-command and reconnaissance
- vehicle for a spin. About 16 miles down the road, he rumbled
- into what was formerly West Berlin and headed down the
- fashionable Kurfurstendamm, hitting several cars--though no
- people. As the soldier was attempting to return to his garrison,
- a Soviet sergeant stopped him with a distinctly low-tech ploy:
- he hopped onto the carrier and threw a blanket over the
- vehicle's windshield.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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