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...permits to that country a month ago. Next, East Germans by the thousands planted themselves in the West German embassy in Prague, as Czechoslovakia was the only country to which they were allowed to travel without an exit permit. Those who could slip into Poland converged on Bonn's compound in Warsaw. And when special trains carrying the refugees to West Germany were routed back through their homeland, near riots resulted. Dozens clambered over fences, lunged at the passing cars and climbed aboard, convinced that the moving trains offered the last opportunity...
...been going on since May, when Hungary began clipping the barbed wire separating the East bloc from Austria. But nothing dramatized the crisis so vividly -- or posed the hard questions for East Germany so immediately -- as the swarm of tents packed with would-be emigres overflowing the embassy compound in Prague. Last Tuesday, after the first freedom trains had rolled out of Prague, Honecker sealed off the country's border to Czechoslovakia, leaving East Germans isolated and caged once more. There were signs late in the week, however, that restrictions on emigration might be eased, according to West German Foreign...
Gregg and his wife, Meg, said at a news conference they were in bed at about 6:30 A.M. when they heard a blast and a guard warned them by telephone that intruders had entered the compound, which is about one mile from the U.S. Embassy...
Police said six male students belonging to an "anti-U.S. death squad" scaled the walls of Gregg's residential compound and hurled tear gas at guards who tried to stop them from rushing the home...
Police said the intruders did not use any weapons except for one tear gas grenade they detonated when forcing their way into the compound in central Seoul. Damage from the tear gas grenade, which was apparently captured police equipment, was described as minor...