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...Europe's pollution is self-generated. Since 1975, East Germany has earned about $600 million in foreign exchange by serving as a landfill for Western Europe, which has major pollution problems of its own. Every day hundreds of garbage-laden trucks cross the border from West Germany and West Berlin to dump their loads. Last year they delivered 5.5 million tons of household and construction rubbish -- plus an additional 65,000 tons of garbage that contained dangerous substances. Smaller amounts of trash came from the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland...
...consequence is that in Ketzin, 20 km (12 miles) from Berlin, a 56- hectare (140-acre) pile of imported rubbish threatens to poison the groundwater. In January, after the city's angry citizens discovered the source of the heap, they held a protest with banners proclaiming EAST GERMANY IS NOT TO BECOME EUROPE'S TOILET. After the demonstration, East Germany's Environment Minister banned toxic-waste imports to Ketzin...
...niche of an industry that is booming at every level. In March federal agents in Atlanta raided an Eastern Airlines flight twice in two days, seizing 100 illegal aliens, including several Romanians who had paid $6,000 apiece for a secret twelve-day odyssey through such cities as East Berlin, Havana and Mexico City...
...truths are collapsing as quickly as the Berlin Wall, while Europe rushes to meet its bright and shining future. The Soviet Union can no longer lay claim to the loyalties of its East European neighbors. The U.S. can no longer assume that its West European allies will look to Washington for leadership. And the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for 40 years the crucible of security arrangements for the West, can no longer count on being the vessel in which Europe's future will be forged. All of these crumbling assumptions have left Washington grasping to define what role...
Ulrich Baer '91 resides in Berlin, Fabian Birgfeld '92 in Hamburg, Stephan Klasen '90-91 in Trier, and Albert Wenger '90 in Nuremberg...