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...long. Following an emergency Cabinet session in Rome, Deputy Prime Minister Claudio Martelli declared that "this exodus cannot continue." The vast majority of Albania's visitors are "not political refugees but economic refugees," he said, and as such they fail to qualify for asylum under Italian law and will be returned home within a few days by Italian ships. That decision, doubtless influenced by Italy's 11% unemployment rate, was the most dramatic display to date of Western Europe's growing reluctance to receive waves of immigrants from the East...
...book begins with a simple account of the building of the Wall. Under Soviet paternal guidance, the East German government began construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, to curb the draining exodus of frustrated East Germans to the West. Many people in Borneman's book felt as if a limb had been amputated, but others saw the Wall as an opportunity to exclude the hypnotic charm of the West. It would give socialism time to grow during its vulnerable infancy...
...whistle." Much of the world thought it heard that unlikely music last March when Soviet legislators amended the constitution to abolish the Communist Party's guaranteed monopoly on political power. Four months later, establishment baiter Boris Yeltsin shocked a party congress by staging a dramatic walkout, leading an exodus of some 2 million disaffected members. But Khrushchev's miracle may not have been quite enough. By last week, it had become clear that die-hard disciples of Marx and Lenin were determined to regain the national whip hand, come what...
...migration, which was suspected to total 100 planes, left allied officials perplexed. "It's tough for me to put any kind of interpretation on what's going on," said chief of allied operations General H. Norman < Schwarzkopf. If Saddam Hussein was behind the exodus -- and that was not absolutely certain -- his goal was obvious: to save his air force from being destroyed on Iraqi soil by allied bombers. But what had motivated Iran to give a helping hand to its erstwhile enemy...
Belief grew that the sick would fare better out of hospitals. Community clinics and halfway houses, it was argued, could provide needed care -- and at less expense than large institutions. So the exodus began. In 1955, state institutions had 552,000 patients; today the number...