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WORLD, Page 79World NotesEAST-WESTBeware the Love-Sick Tank
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.