European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Kevin Costelloe associated press hundreds of thousands of people Are crossing european Borders in the largest such migrations in years leaving behind loved ones and possessions some leave voluntarily seeking a better life. Others Are being forced out ethnic turks have lied in record numbers irom harassment in Bulgaria Easl germans Are hooding into West Germany Moscow is granting Many soviet jews their Long time wish to emigrate. At least 400.000  germans irom the soviet Union and live other earn european countries arc expected in West Ger Marty 111 3 year that Maiks an emotional Homecoming lot the descendants of Selt Lero who also had sought a better me by heading eastward decades of even centimes ago i Mysell Tell Iho German democratic Republic eat Germany in 1952. West Gorman foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gunc Char cays of the new arrivals from thai communist nation i know what s driving those people on and i  that no one makes a snap decision to flee the number of East germans reaching West Germany this year is cd pooled to hit 100,000, the highest number since 207,000 people arrived in 1961, when the Berlin Wall was built to Hall the Low so far in 1989, most of the East germans leaving behind a growing sense of hopelessness in their Bleak country Are emigrating legally Bui Lor those leaving without permission the escapes can Range irom a death defying swim across a Berlin River to a Sprol across the Border Between Hungary and Austria a group of 108 Easl germans who had taken Refuge in Iho West German embassy in Budapest were allowed to leave in a group Lor West Germany but the hungarian news Agency Mai said the Case was an exception thai cannot serve As a precedent. Budapest says up to 5,000 East germans have reportedly reached the West via Hungary almost Allol them illegally since the exodus began in the second Hall of july hungarian foreign minister Gyula Horn said up to 200,000 East germans Are in his country now Many of the refugees Are Young workers who will be sorely missed Back in the German democratic Republic a country of 16 6 million people. The Federal Republic of Germany is the promised land Lor another current wave of european migrants ethnic germans whose ancestors settled in what is now the soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe generations ago last year to had 200,000. And this year we Are counting on 400.000, said Ina Rudohl an official of the West German red Cross in Bonn. The numbers she cited reflect the now arrivals irom the Soviel Union Poland Romania Hungary Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia after Iho War it  12 i Ion people that was to largest  Ruehl said referring to the exodus of germans irom Eastern Europe following the collapse of the nazis third Reich so this is really the second biggest such movement " by Way of comparison up until 1987 Only about 600 ethnic germans were allowed to emigrate irom their Homes in Siberia and soviet Central Asia. Emigration is regarded by Many As the Only possibility to remain germans to preserve their traditions language and  the official soviet news Agency Tass said earlier this month in summing up the views of a new organization representing the minority s interests the head of the soviet visa Agency Ovir said that in refugees irom East Germany who escaped Over the Austro hungarian Border line up at the transit Camp in Giessen West Germany. About 100,000 East germans Are expected to reach West Germany this year. ,1 flood triggered by Eaic cd travel restrictions. 200.000 soviets Are expected to emigrate in 1989. Rudolf Kuznetsov said about 107.000 already have received permission to leave this  most of Tho Emigrant go to the United slates and West Germany the ethnic turks who had Boon streaming out of a sett Are leaving behind official harassment ivc Cong on outright persecution aul hotties in Solia have embarked on a brutal a in Lalion Campaign forcing the ethnic turks to adopt slavic names the ethnic turks say they have been lined and beaten for speaking turkish in Public and practising islamic riles the number leaving had climbed to More than 300,000 in three months before Ankara started clamping Down on refugees fleeing by car in Hopes of lord my concessions from bulgarian authorities. Turkey is seeking to control the Pace of the exodus and ensure immigrants Are compensated for proper Tell behind and accumulated pension benefits  arrivals  Are required to have visas from turkish consulates turkish authorities pro Ion Ray had stopped the Dail 1,-3 n carrying the Olin a turks because of what i or Cifen ministry spoke non mural Sungar called disorderly and inhuman treatment by the bulgarians about 30,000 romanians most of them ethnic hungarians have fled to Hungary Over the past two years the ethnic hungarians also have claimed violations of their rights to use choir language and maintain their cultural traditions Hungary s willingness to take in the refugees and Budapest s championing of the romanian ethnic hungarian minority s rights have worsened the already strained relations Between the two Warsaw pact allies the soviet Union has opened the door for one of its Best known minorities the estimated 1.8 million to 3 million jews. Since 1971, about 300,000 soviet jews have emigrated thousands of them have made their Way to Italy by Way of Vienna hoping to reach Tho United states but while Iho United slates used to Welcome the Soviel jews with open arms that policy was lightened last october much to the dismay of the hopeful emigres Roberta Elliott director of Public affairs for the hebrew immigrant Aid society Hias in new York says 30,711 soviet jews emigrated Between october 1988 and the end of july she said Hias figures show that during the same period 3,858 soviet jews wont to Israel 19,366 to the United slates and 282 to Australia. Asol the end of july 12,600 soviet jews were still wailing in Nlaly about 5,000 of them live and wait near Rome in the Small Seaside town of Ladis poli where an old movie theater has been turned into a synagogue and Many of Iho shops have signs in russian Italy also has had to Cope with a wave of thousands of poles hoping to resettle in the West sheer economic need olten remains the greatest moving Force for massive internal migrations Wilhm Europe demonstrated by Iho millions of turks italians. Spaniards. Yugoslavs and others who have found work in Northern european countries Over the last Low decades Foi generations the Irish have left their craggy Oft troubled Island in search of Success in the United states Britain and other countries of the european Community Ireland will have Little or no unemployment towards the end of Iho Century said an article in Irish business the simple solution is As it always has been emigration. But this time the main thrust will be towards the u.k., and they will be welcomed with open  according to government figures emigration from Ireland was 20.000 in 1984-85,28.000 in 1985-86 and 27,000 in 1986-87, wednesday. August 30, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 13