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...eggs. That denouement nearly obscured the meaning of a day when 300,000 people had peacefully marched through Berlin to show opposition to the wave of racism and right-wing violence that has brought back ugly memories of an earlier Germany. Ever since last August, when a mob in Rostock besieged and burned a house for asylum seekers to the applause of 2,000 bystanders, Germans have watched in growing dismay as a xenophobic fever spread across the land. Right-wing extremists, neo-Nazis and ordinary youths have committed 1,760 attacks, mainly against foreigners, this year. They have desecrated...
...many easterners for the problems of their much troubled region or from becoming the focus of right-wing demonology. Many easterners are certain that the newcomers are treated better than native Germans. "We have enough unemployed. We don't need any foreigners here," says Frank Tamaz, 30, of Rostock. "They take our jobs, and they take our houses...
...German right-wing radicals, the incendiary of choice is the Molotov cocktail. Instead of hitting their target and burning out, however, the ones hurled two weeks ago in Rostock have continued to spray sparks across Germany: at week's end, more than 150 attacks on asylum-seeking foreigners had been registered since the mayhem began. In Ketzin, 10 miles from Berlin, 44 Auslander barely escaped with their lives when the building they inhabited was razed by torch throwers. Official calls for special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there...
...Ethnic cleansing," it appears, plagues not just the Balkans but the Baltic as well. In a hail of rocks and Molotov cocktails, skinheads and neo-Nazis in the eastern German port of Rostock tried to storm an apartment block housing 200 asylum-seeking Romanian Gypsies, beginning an ugly battle that would last all week. After officials moved the Gypsies, the hooligans trapped 100 Vietnamese guest workers in a neighboring building and set it ablaze. By luck alone, none of the inhabitants was seriously hurt...
...population upheaval, taking in 256,000 asylum seekers last year -- a number that may double this year. But Kohl's Christian Democrats could soon get their wish. Leaders of the rival Social Democrats, whose support is essential for such an amendment, coincidentally abandoned their opposition only hours before the Rostock riots began...