Word: wallmann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this month more than 200 Afghans and Ethiopians were stranded for five days at Frankfurt airport; Mayor Walter Wallmann refused to accept them on the grounds that his city had already absorbed 8,000 asylum seekers this year, at a cost of $12 million. Eventually, the refugees were given temporary shelter at an already overcrowded camp for asylum seekers in Bavaria-the only one of its kind in West Germany. But Franz Josef Strauss, minister-president (governor) of Bavaria, has warned: "We cannot continue to push these poor people around...