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...East Germans to the West, most of them in specially-equipped automobiles with false compartments, traveling on Communist autobahns. The court was told that the job had become easier in the détente atmosphere following the 1971 Berlin agreement, when the Communists stopped searching all vehicles using transit routes to Berlin. One of the accused testified that he had paid two U.S. soldiers $1,600 to help...
...interview with the party newspaper, Neues Deutschland. He charged that West Germany had allowed the people-smugglers to take advantage of relaxed controls on access routes running through East Germany that linked West Berlin to West Germany. To Honecker, this violated "the letter and spirit" of the 1971 transit agreement between the two Germanys, which makes Bonn responsible for preventing misuse of the routes...
...cities seems over, for now, and peaceful Black Panthers run for political office. In Chicago, neighborhood meetings are more calm, though the problems which once aroused great passion have not disappeared. The issues discussed are the cross-town expressway and the extension of rapid transit. The police are under more attack than ever, but not for murder--only for scattered brutality and conscientious shake-down of tavern owners. Arlen returns to the house on West Monroe Street where the Panthers lived. A man is repainting the window trim. "Did something happen here?" Arlen asks. "Was it important?" An American verdict...
...Israeli struggle last month when Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky promised Arab terrorists to close it down to Soviet Jews in return for the release of three hostages (TIME, Oct. 15). But so far, Kreisky has taken no steps to impede the flow of Jewish emigrants to and through the transit camp; instead, he has increased security at the camp and assigned gendarmes and plainclothes policemen to guard trains carrying emigrants from the moment they cross into Austria...
...week, in a seven-hour parliamentary debate that at times became a shouting match, Kreisky continued his confusing public stance by repeating his determination to close SchÖnau. Later a government spokesman explained that the Chancellor anticipates doing "nothing that could hinder or in any way endanger the transit of Soviet-Jewish emigres through Austria. We hope we shall come up with a solution in the very near future." Most likely, Kreisky eventually will close SchÖnau and then open another transit center, possibly in a well-guarded building at Schwechat Airport. This would have the double advantage...