The World : More East Germans Flee

Hundreds of East Germans, fearing that their historic opportunity to emigrate might soon be lost, crossed from Hungary into Austria. But Hungarian Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth said the border will remain open. Border officials in West Germany said 500 East Germans had made their way to registration points in Bavaria during the night Friday. Nemeth told the West German newspaper Bild am Sonntag that concern for human rights had dictated his country’s decision to allow East Germans to cross the border unimpeded. Using Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s concept of a “European House” where East and West cooperate, Nemeth was quoted as saying that “there can be no rooms in such a house that are separated by barbed wire.”