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Germany Agrees
To Absorb
Jewish Emigres

Bonn (JTA) — Chancellor
Helmut Kohl and the prime
ministers of the 16 German
states have agreed that the
states would share the
burden of receiving and ab-
sorbing Jewish refugees
from the Soviet Union, who
are arriving at the rate of
100 to 200 a day.
The federal government in
Bonn will settle the legal
status of Soviet Jews already
in the country, and no
quotas will be imposed on
the future influx.
A government spokesman
said the decision was
unanimous but did not
specify how the absorption
burden would be shared
between the states and the
federal authorities.
Other sources said that, for
all practical purposes, the
absorption of immigrants is
a matter for the states. The
federal government's con-
tribution will be mainly to
help the immigrants get en-
try documents and to settle
their legal status once they
arrive.
The decision was a signifi-
cant concession to the Ger-
man Jewish community,
which has been lobbying
vigorously for free entry for
Soviet Jews. The community
hopes to strengthen its
ranks with the new arrivals
and reopen old Jewish
centers in what until three
months ago was East Ger-
many.
Virtually all Soviet
emigres arrive in what had
been East Berlin. An office
was established there last
year by the East German
government to offer the im-
migrants legal advice and
direct them to agencies that
could provide food and tem-
porary housing.
Since unification however,
the municipality of Berlin,
which is also a state itself,
has complained that it lacks
the resources to keep pace
with the influx.
It is demanding an
equitable arrangement that
would require other states to
share the absorption burden,
based on their wealth, in-
come, population and
available housing.
Foreign Ministry sources
said some 15,000 Soviet
Jews have applied for entry
visas at German consulates
in Moscow and Leningrad.
Most have been coming as
tourists and simply
overstaying the six-week
period allowed holders of
Soviet passports.

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