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...Every citizen has the right to emigrate." To Germans, the Wall's greatest mischief is its aim of permanently dismembering a divided nation whose people yearn to be reunified. West Berliners themselves must also think of their city's welfare. Said West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt last week: "The Wall must go, but until it goes, the city must live...
...Brandt's words were prompted by Peter Fechter's ignominious death and the events that followed it. Fechter was an East Berlin bricklayer who had waited a year for an opportunity to join his sister in West Berlin. Because of his trade, he was allowed to work near the crumbling wall, and, with another 18-year-old, discovered a deserted lumberyard that was separated from a low stretch of Wall by a vacant lot and the "death strip." a border of sand within easy range of a dozen Communist tommy guns...
...lectures are sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Administration and will be held this year on Tuesday, October 2 and Wednesday, October 3. Brandt has not yet selected a general topic for the lecture series...
...Brandt has not announced an itinerary for his trip to the United States, but it is expected that he may travel to other areas in the country before or after his Harvard lectures...
...Brandt has served as Mayor of West Berlin since 1957, is chairman of the Social Democratic Party in West Berlin and led his party in last year's national German elections...