The World - News from Aug. 21, 1989

Several hundred East Germans arrived at crowded West German refugee camps, a day after they fled across the Austro-Hungarian border. West German government officials said that about 500 East Germans had come by chartered trains and buses from Vienna to the main transit camp in Giessen north of Frankfurt and to another camp near Nuremberg. They were among 661 East Germans who the officials said had shown up at the West German Embassy in Vienna after fleeing from Hungary to Austria through an open gate at a picnic site.