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...board more than 50 military and Alitalia flights headed for Tirana. Altogether, said Interior Minister Vincenzo Scotti, 17,466 had been shipped home by last week. But a few hundred holdouts, including army deserters, have been allowed to stay while an Italian commission decides whether they qualify for political asylum...
...Dresden last April, neo-Nazis threw a Mozambican to his death from a moving streetcar. In May they invaded a tenement in Wittenberg, forcing two Namibians off a fourth-floor balcony and critically injuring them. Two weeks ago, 50 skinheads stormed a center for asylum seekers from the Third World, smashing windows and pummeling residents. No one with a dark skin, police officials say, can feel safe on the streets of eastern Berlin...
...June of 1990 -- the unification of Germany -- is now mired in difficulty. To find out why, Bonn bureau chief James Jackson and correspondent Daniel Benjamin traveled across the republic for several months. They spoke with economists in Munich, psychologists in Halle and Wuppertal, even frightened foreigners in a western asylum camp. They attended classes at the University of Leipzig, interviewed fledgling eastern businessmen, and met with youth workers in Berlin. From the windows of a Soviet-built helicopter, Jackson snapped photographs of military bases, an unheard-of act only two years...
...communist regime as "guest workers" but were the first to be fired last year when factories lost subsidies and began cutting oversize work forces. Berlin's police chief has warned blacks to avoid subways in the eastern part of the city, and foreign workers are seeking refuge in asylum camps in the western part of the country...
Tesfaye never followed through on his second pledge, but he did proclaim a cease-fire before seeking asylum at the Italian embassy. At that point, Herman Cohen, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, announced in London that the U.S. was "recommending" that the Democratic Front enter Addis Ababa quickly "to stabilize the situation." The front obliged...