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...While refugee routes to the West remain even partially open, discontented East Germans will prefer to flee to safety rather than resort to the more dangerous open struggle...
...Mary runs off with him, although she senses that she is leaving for a "gas chamber." Emotionally speaking, she is right, for David compulsively attempts to destroy her. Trying to understand himself, he inwardly sizes up his kind: "We are the tinkers, who move on; who invite experience but flee from consequences . . . We are the most dangerous of all: the permanently immature...
Back to the Pacific jetted General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 81, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Philippine independence. Among the stops on his itinerary: Corregidor, which he was forced to flee in 1942; Fort William McKinley cemetery, which honors the thousands of his troops who did not get away; Leyte beach, where he fulfilled his "I shall return" vow 2½ years later...
...prosperous, capitalist-run West Berlin stands in humiliating contrast to Ulbricht's own drab, run-down capital just across the sector border; moreover, West Berlin's refugee centers provide the escape route for most of the 200,000 skilled workers, engineers, farmers and white-collar professionals who flee Ulbricht's miserable country for the West each year, sapping East Germany's very lifeblood...
...last week rumbled his new threats against the Western presence in Berlin, the reasons for his ire were shuffling through the long lines at West Berlin's big, drab Marienfelde clearing center for refugees. They were the Grenzgänger, the border-hopping escapees from East Germany who flee to the West by the hundreds each week, making a mockery of Communist claims of providing a better life, and sapping the strength of their limping, labor-short country. Since 1945, some 4,000,000 East Germans-almost one-fourth of East Germany's entire present population-have fled...