World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Refugees Moved in Bid to Ease Tension

Busloads of asylum seekers left a crowded refugee camp in eastern Germany as authorities sought to defuse a potentially explosive situation at the scene of last year’s racist riots. Officials said that about 700 refugees, most of them Romanians, were being taken from an overflowing refugee center in a suburb of Rostock to hostels in other German states. Neighbors had expressed dismay at the concentration of refugees. Their comments echoed those that preceded the firebombing of the center last August when it was housed in an apartment complex in another suburb.