BONN, GERMANY: Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his opponents traded accusations but couldn’t agree in parliament on how to deal with daily right-wing radical attacks on foreigners,
The opposition Social Democrats charged that Kohl’s government has encouraged the militants by repeatedly demanding drastic changes in Germany’s liberal asylum laws,
‘A leader of Kohl’s Christian Democrats countered that the Social | Democrats’ reluctance to radically change the law is winning the radicals new sympathizers.
More than 280,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Germany so far ante was no sign of an end to a three-week spree of assaults on foreigners.
Police arrested 11 rioters after two firebombs were thrown at a refugee home in the eastern town of Quedlinburg. A refugee shelter in nearby Bernburg also was hit by a firebomb.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 25, 1992
