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She was hosting visitors and had just come from showing them the famous border crossing called Checkpoint Charlie, which she said was "just a carnival," with actors in old military uniforms posing for photographs in a sea of tourists.
Only non-German airlines had permission to fly in, primarily PanAm, and virtually the only road in was from the south through Potsdam; drivers arriving at the Dreilinden border crossing (aka Checkpoint Bravo) could expect to have their cars, trucks -- and themselves -- completely searched for contraband by the East German police before being allowed, maybe, to go through.
Widening a highway toll plaza, border crossing or other checkpoint by adding travel lanes and vehicle-processing stations in parallel fashion can be expensive, and sometimes even infeasible.
The contract, which will probably be awarded in coming days to one of three final bidders, is already generating considerable interest as federal officials try to improve significantly their ability to monitor those who enter at more than 300 border-crossing checkpoints by land, sea and air, where they are going and whether they pose a terrorist threat.
A South Korean activist at a protest against the female activists' border crossing, near a military checkpoint in Paju on May 24 , 2015
"There's little recognition," said Hugo Diederich, the chairman of the Association of Victims of Stalinism, himself a former forced laborer, after a news conference here a short walk from the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, in a building that stands along the path of the Berlin Wall.
West Berlin citizens celebrate in the eastern part of the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing in West Berlin, Nov. 9, 1989, after the announcement by communist East Germany that it would open its borders to the west.
Around 2003, the site came into the ownership of a development company, now known as New City Vision and under the control of the same Irish property speculators who, until last year, owned Berlin's famous Checkpoint Charlie border crossing.
Worse yet, on the days the gate is open Hamas actually installs checkpoints near the border crossing to screen out those attempting to cross.
At the border crossing here, migrants said dozens of military checkpoints lined the roads west of Tripoli, all of them operated by pro-government forces who have been systematically confiscating electronic devices.
There were more deaths in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians marched through a Hamas checkpoint towards the Erez border crossing with Israel.
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