European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Like Many other East German refugees Andrea Aber Lett and Steffen Yazak left their Homeland this week Tor Western soil. They la go wherever we can find work Yazak said.  no longer East German a country sticker on the Backol a refugee s car. Is photos by Vince Crawley thousands desert the workers state by Effie Batman and Vince Crawley stall writers hey loaded their lives into old leather suitcases bundles backpacks and Clumsy Little cars and headed West. Almost 15,000 of them. There they joined the 50,000 or so East germans who legally or illegally have resettled in West Germany this year. It s a Little revolution a heavy equipment operator named Lutz said tuesday at the Hegerberg tent City near Passau West Germany. It was one of the Camps where the thousands of refugees from the East spent their first nights on Western soil. Like the others Lutz took the 1,000-mile Detour through Czechoslovakia Hungary and Austria hoping to find a better life on the other Side of the divided Germany. A few Summers ago his daughter Steffi continued on Page 14 saturday september 16, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 13