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<text id=92TT2060>
<title>
Sep. 14, 1992: Fires in the Night
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Sep. 14, 1992 The Hillary Factor
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 16
WORLD
Fires in the Night
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<p>German right-wingers spearhead scores of attacks against
foreigners
</p>
<p> For 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 was no
breakdown in civic order, the attacks reached to the front door
of the government: right-wingers threw fire bombs at a house of
asylum seekers a mile from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Bonn office.
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<p> While the shelters burned, however, the politicians
continued to fiddle. In principle, a move to change Germany's
liberal asylum laws is closer, since the opposition Social
Democrats agree that a constitutional amendment is needed. In
fact, most of Bonn's energy went into fighting over SPD charges
that the government has deliberately dawdled on processing and
deporting unworthy asylum seekers to keep the pressure on for
the legal change.
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