E. German Drives Truck Across Border to West
Reuters
MUNICH, West Germany —
An East German man smashed through border barriers in a truck to escape to West Germany over the weekend, West German police said Sunday.
The 28-year-old man drove through a double row of steel-mesh fencing and reached Bavaria on Saturday without East German border guards noticing.
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