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...German right-wing radicals, the incendiary of choice is the Molotov cocktail. Instead of hitting their target and burning out, however, the ones hurled two weeks ago in Rostock have continued to spray sparks across Germany: at week's end, more than 150 attacks on asylum-seeking foreigners had been registered since the mayhem began. In Ketzin, 10 miles from Berlin, 44 Auslander barely escaped with their lives when the building they inhabited was razed by torch throwers. Official calls for special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there...
While the shelters burned, however, the politicians continued to fiddle. In principle, a move to change Germany's liberal asylum laws is closer, since the opposition Social Democrats agree that a constitutional amendment is needed. In fact, most of Bonn's energy went into fighting over SPD charges that the government has deliberately dawdled on processing and deporting unworthy asylum seekers to keep the pressure on for the legal change...
...Ethnic cleansing," it appears, plagues not just the Balkans but the Baltic as well. In a hail of rocks and Molotov cocktails, skinheads and neo-Nazis in the eastern German port of Rostock tried to storm an apartment block housing 200 asylum-seeking Romanian Gypsies, beginning an ugly battle that would last all week. After officials moved the Gypsies, the hooligans trapped 100 Vietnamese guest workers in a neighboring building and set it ablaze. By luck alone, none of the inhabitants was seriously hurt...
Even as they denounced the violence, Bonn officials used the occasion to urge once more the adoption of a constitutional amendment that would curtail Germany's liberal provisions for asylum. Germany continues to bear the brunt of Europe's population upheaval, taking in 256,000 asylum seekers last year -- a number that may double this year. But Kohl's Christian Democrats could soon get their wish. Leaders of the rival Social Democrats, whose support is essential for such an amendment, coincidentally abandoned their opposition only hours before the Rostock riots began...
...Johnson had to be shipped back to America, where he was consigned to a grim state lunatic asylum at Islip, New York. He never emerged from it -- or painted again. The last of his money paid for storage of the enormous, unsorted mass of Johnson's canvases, possessions and oddments. New York museums were not interested, but finally in 1966 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington agreed to house his life's work. Johnson was too far gone to register this; in 1970, still confined in Islip, he died...