The World - News from July 16, 1989

About 30 East Germans have taken refuge in West Germany’s embassy in Budapest, Hungary, hoping to win admission to the West, the West German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said. It quoted a Bonn official as saying many East Germans had been drawn to Hungary after it began dismantling its border fence with Austria in May, leading them to believe they could make their way to West Germany via Hungary. But Hungarian border patrols were turning back East Germans, the paper said. News of this had caused would-be emigrants to take refuge in the embassy in the hope that it would find a way out for them.