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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...
Bonn spokesmen said no money had changed hands in the deal. But they hinted that proposed East-West German agreements on environmental and scientific cooperation, which East Berlin seeks, would now be looked upon favorably...
...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...
Last year, after thousands of Sri Lankans entered West Germany through East Berlin, Bonn granted East Germany some $293 million in credits, and the flow subsided. Even as the Chancellor hopes to slow the influx of non-Germans, he wants to do nothing to discourage East Germans from seeking freedom in the West...
...best New Age albums so far: Rock Violinist Jerry Goodman's high-flying On the Future of Aviation and the anthology Piano One, which features hypnotic solo performances by Jobson and Japan's Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others. "I like to ; describe the music as very visual," says the Berlin-born Baumann. "One important aspect is the absence of lyrics, which gives the listener a much wider range of associations...