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...past several months, a growing stream of asylum seekers from such Third World nations as Iran, India and Sri Lanka has passed through East Berlin en route to the Allied occupied zones in West Berlin. The traffic has discomfited the Bonn government, but the East Germans have profited from the refugee business. Last week, however, the Communists were persuaded to stop the flow: as of Oct. l, no one may enter East Germany without a visa to that country or some other destination...
Kennedy's reply will probably be remembered ashis official entry into the family tradition. Hedeclared that he absolutely would not deal withthe country that offered asylum to Sirhan Sirhan,his father's assassin, and that the three banks'holdings did not give them any say in thegoverning of his corporation...
...haven, West Germany has many attractions. The country is relatively safe and stable. It offers steady growth, low inflation and generous welfare programs. Best of all, the Federal Republic has an unusually liberal asylum law that was adopted in 1949 to accommodate Germans fleeing East European Communist rule. Small wonder that roughly 245 refugees, mostly from the Middle East, Iran and the Indian subcontinent, arrive each day. The sharply rising flood of immigrants, however, has set off cries of protest from West Germans...
...they fail to check the papers of passengers flying to West Germany. Refugees from "problem countries" in the Third World will have to apply for visas even if they plan to spend only a few days in the Federal Republic. And those awaiting a decision on their asylum requests may seek employment only after five years. "It is simply not possible," said the Chancellor, "for the Federal Republic to be a refuge for anyone in economic difficulty...
...rules may help deter some of the 30,000 so-called economic refugees who are expected to step into the transit lounges at West German airports this year and request asylum. But the measures will not directly block those who fly to East Berlin and then make their way from there to the West. Iranians in Turkey report paying $1,000 for flights into East Berlin on Interflug, the East German airline, and those from South Asia pay even more to jet in on the Soviet carrier Aeroflot...