E. Berlin Guards Seize Intruder From Seattle
East Berlin guards arrested a 68-year old American who ran through a border crossing from the U.S. sector of West Berlin, a West Berlin police spokesman said Sunday.
He said that John James Runnings, of Seattle, who made his dash through Checkpoint Charlie on Saturday, had made several previous attempts to enter East Berlin to protest at the division of the former German capital.
In August he was held overnight by East German police after he ran along the top of the Berlin Wall, separating the city from the Communist east, and hammered chunks out of the structure.
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