Word: exoduses
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...first, the half-hour television film The Passover seems to be one of those instructive seasonal documentaries. A Jewish family is sitting down to a typical Passover Seder. An announcer tells the story of the Exodus, the Jews' anguish in Egypt and their struggle to leave, and that terrible night the Angel of the Lord passed by the houses of the Jews to strike down the first-born sons of their Egyptian masters. On the traditional Seder table are the symbolic foods: the salt water and bitter herbs, reminders of the time of bondage; the roasted lamb, recalling...
...following that line of reasoning toward Russia's 3,500,000 Jews, of whom some 30,000 have applied for exit visas to Israel. Since the Soviet Union denies its citizens the right to emigrate, the assumption has been that the Kremlin could not sanction a Jewish exodus without arousing other dissatisfied minority nationalities. Nonetheless, rather than openly crush the Jews and incur bad publicity abroad, the Soviets apparently have decided to take the risk. From a mere handful, the number of Jews allowed to leave Russia has now grown...
Actually, up to a point, the Pentagon makes a logical case for this strategy: to keep the enemy off balance and off American backs as the exodus goes on. U.S. muscle in Viet Nam is shrinking by the month, and that is the operative fact. Thus, in a sense, the President is like the fellow backing out of the saloon with both guns blazing...
...months to come, this scene will be repeated every day at precisely 8:37 a.m. That is when the Hanover-Kassel local pulls into Friedland (pop. 1,200), site of West Germany's East European refugee camp. Since the exodus began last week, more than 250 Germans have arrived from Poland-the vanguard of many more who are expected to make the trek by mid-1972. The refugees are the first tangible result of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik...
...This exodus entails few physical hardships. On arrival at the hospital-clean refugee camp, the newcomers are fed a hearty breakfast, and over the next four days they are given medical checkups, new papers, job counseling and briefings. When the refugees are ready to leave the camp, the Bonn government provides each family of four with the equivalent of $200; the newcomers are also entitled to reimbursement for visa and travel expenses. In labor-short West Germany, where 900,000 jobs are open, the refugees should have no trouble finding work...