Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday the Jews, tomorrow the Turks. -Graffito in West Berlin...
...times and rising unemployment, the immigrant question had become a political issue. Responding to pressure from their voters, governments placed heavy restrictions on new immigration. Too late. A new, alien and highly visible population was already entrenched in ghettos across the Continent: in Kreuzberg, along the Wall, in West Berlin; in large areas of Paris, Marseilles, Lyons; in the old quarters of Amsterdam and Utrecht; in the Brussels communes of Saint-Josse, Saint-Gilles and Schaerbeek; in Brixton, Toxteth and two dozen other working-class communities around Britain...
...threatening letters telling them to leave Germany or be hounded out. An outfit calling itself the Prince Eugen Battle Group (named for a brutal Austrian field marshal who led a major assault against the Turks in the late 17th century) has set its sights on Turkish teachers in West Berlin schools. "Can't you understand we [Germans] don't want anything to do with you," says one of their milder letters. "Pack your things while there is still time... before your apartments and kebab stalls go up in flames." All too often, the threats are carried...
...after matches. At pressent, 37 members of the group are being investigated on charges of racial incitement, theft, assault and breach of the peace. When West Germany played Turkey last November in a qualifying match for this year's European championships, police posted 6,000 men at West Berlin's Olympic stadium. Turkish shops were given special protection after neo-Nazi groups threatened that the Kreuzberg ghetto would "go up in flames" on the day of the game. The anti-immigrant atmosphere caused Chancellor Helmut Kohl so much embarrassment that he flew in from Bonn to attend...
Aspen officials said yesterday that it is likely that Bok visited East Berlin sometime during the week. They said that they encourage all participants to make the trip through the wall to see first hand the differences between East and West but they were unsure if Bok had decided...