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Americans may picture refugees as stoic people with babushkas and cardboard suitcases. Actually, they are scared, often hopeless people, and they come with nothing, for baggage in East Germany is a sign of flight or intent to flee-punishable offenses. Though the Communists methodically plug one exit after another into West Germany, 1,000 refugees a day now pour into West Berlin, and authorities expect the figure will eventually climb to as much...
...route to India. He had been sent to a monastery, but his mind wandered. When he heard a geographer lecture on the mysterious oceans, his heart pounded. It pounded still more when he saw the luscious Jewish girl Maraela. And once the Inquisition had forced Maraela to flee, Lepe had no reason to remain in Spain...
...encouraged her to begin with Marcus, began to wonder if she might not end with him. His mind was set at rest, though his prospects were unhinged, when another young soldier, Constans, killed Gratianus and Maria, and raised another "emperor" to the purple. Felix, of course, had to flee for his life, and so found himself sitting miserably in his bog, trying to be stoic about...
...morning, they shoved aside the more cautious student leaders, whipped up a mob and broke into the shopping center, toting clubs and torches. Interior Minister Mushtaq Gurmani drove up to make a personal appeal to the rioters. They trapped him, set fire to his Cadillac, and forced him to flee in a police car. Steel-helmeted cops put aside their clubs, grabbed rifles, began shooting. By evening the Reds had seven martyrs...
...Credit for the discovery goes to Dr. Walter Stengel, 70, the director of East Berlin's Markisches Museum for the past 25 years. He had seen the 1541 Luther Bible in his museum many times, but never looked into it until last November. Then, planning to retire and flee the East zone to live in West Berlin with his son, he had been browsing through the treasures of a professional lifetime...