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Show ffl "'uj I A The Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday, August 19, 1973 Beer, Gemutlichkeit Israel Still South West Africa Remains German practices Folic Cures Associated Press Writer WINDHOEK, SOUTH WEST The beer and AFRICA work ethic are much the same as in Wurtzburg or Wuppertal And 6,000 miles as the jet flies from Frankfurt once a week life goes on as it does back home: hot roll and coffee for breakfast, a hard days work followed by Kultur or Gemutlichkeit. By Robert Slater 2 l'mted Prexs Intermional - Jerusalem Mordechai glanced at his infant son, Mho was crying xoftlv on a table in the mid-.- ! of noisy friends and relatives ;Soon. a centuries-ol- d of "prayers arid chants ritual would fabegin and the Libyan-borther would soil his newborn child to a neighbor Little money would be exchanged for the sale is symbolic In fact, the sale is canceled when Ihe child reaches the age of ll and returns home To Assure Survival The Berlin Wall with its snarled harbwiere and rigidly patrolled boundaries has been replaced previous two babies died shortly after their birth Now, according to ancient custom, he believes the sale will assure his new son s as expedient means to freedom by autobahn "transit routes between Fast. West Germany. New Route for East Germans surviv at The sale is one of hundreds of ethnic medical customs still being practiced in Israel by thousand- - of Jews, mostly from Afncan and Asian who cling to the wdys of folk medicine even when trained modern physicians are available just by poking up the telephone Ancient Customs Reign Autobahn Offers Escape cpuntnes, are finding that the North Africans and other Ori;'IWe who have modern-dadoctors follow still their ancient said Dr Issachar cOstoms, a folklore researcher entals in turned to Israel Ben-Am- i, , "The likelihood is that eventually most of them will forget about going to the doctor while keeping up their old customs !Dr. chairman of the Hebrew Universitys of Folklore, is midr a way through research project to collect folk medicine customs of the peoples who have immigrated Ben-Am- i, five-yea- to A sharp rise In BERLIN the number of East Germans escaping to the West over the autobahn routes that join West .Berlin and West Germany is confounding authorities in both Germanys East Germans in ever greater numbers are taking advantage of the lack of border controls on western vehicles entenng and leaving East GerDecades of harsh many searches of cars and tnicks for hidden escapees ended on June 4 last year. East and West Germany, under the Berlin agreement, agreed that traffic on the East beGerman "transit routes tween West Berlin and West Germany would be "facilitated and without hindrance " Instant Birth Control Healers Trusted has Ben-A- Western fnends and relatives have not been the only ones helping escapers Over half of thoe who armed in West Berlin have disclosed that they bought their way out by paying professional smugglers These groups, which operate from West Germany, Austria and Switzerland, charge from $20,01)0 to $40.(100 a head discov- ered that large numbers of nek immigrants from Nortu Afnca put their faith in magic incantations and amulets of unlicensed healers." Profitable Smuggling The smuggling venture is and enormously profitable free of all risk for the professionals. Their agents hire foreign workers in West Germany and West Berlin who are given hasty instructions and rented cars with large trunks. They are paid as little as $250 for picking up East Germans along the transit roads Although 77 of them have been arrested so far this year by the East Germans, the escape route has not been plugged Now, however, East Germany has made strong representations to the West German government It has issued a thinly veiled threat to allow its border officials to "work to rule," meaning possible delays on the autobahn On Bonn's Shoulders But the onus of solving the problem has been put squarely on Bonn Privately, however, government experts say there appears little West Germany can do. Politically, it is out of the question to send back refugees. Charging the ringleaders with extortion has also been ruled out as their East German customers are willing partners m the contract Only Doctors, Dentists many East Germans can pay that kind of promis-ornote, particularly when it is due within vwo weeks of arrival in the West. Physicians and dentists are among those who are able to do so, and they make up a high proportion of the escapers Once m the West they can earn $2,000 three times their monthly and are income m the East a good credit risk for anyone advancing the escape payment Not y During the first half of this year, well over 100 East German doctors were smuggled by professional dealers to the West The exodus has been acute at prestigious hospitals such as the Chante in East Berlin, where any physician of under 40 is suspected hatching an escape plan. Open In West Despite prowling East German police m marked and some even unmarked cars patrol in West German BMW's with false West German license numbers the westward flow of refugees has gone unabated The North African conviction that the ruda plant calmes in its small, green leaves a .urative for practically any illness Dr. countries. A far greater number v those who escaped hidden in western cars and trucks, registered with the West German authorities Human Cargo Since then, hundreds of thousands of western travelers have been speedily processed through the autobahn checkpoints A number of them began carrying human cargo as word spread that this was the safest way for East Germans to escape Meetings were arranged with western fnends and relatives, and a rendezvous selected point along an isolated stretch on one of the four highways leading west The Moroccan belief that who a kmfe-- leldmg man cries out a fnend's name three times and receives a response from him will prevent th$ fnends wife from conceiving children The Iraqi belie! that eating onions twice a day is a cdTe for cancer. your relations in the German Democratic Republic? W e can with also help, moving problems One of the most prominent escape artists, Hans lives in a palatial villa m Zurich, surrounded bv exotic dogs, a pet leopard and musclemen "assistcalled ants Herr Lenlenger freely admits that his firm, Aramco Ag, is active on all fronts in getting out East Germans He proudly shows visitors an album filled with the thanks of unnamed escapers escaped through third four-pow- Among his most exotic finds arfe: ' said they were helped out over the autobahn The rest made it over the wall or By Leslie Colitt 1 he London Observer Israel i tnckling back 1920s and mils By Euan Stace The escape organizations operate openly in the West, advertising their services in A West German newspapers typical advertisement readsDo you have problems with Mostly by Autobahn Last month, of the 92 East Germans who registered as refugees in West Berlin, 82 3 Of all Germany's former colonies on this continent, West South Afnca alone remains so firmly German Togo, the Cameroxns and Ruanda-Burund- i were Gallicized by the French and BelIn Tanganyika, now gians Tanzania, they speak English when not Swahili, but accents here still have a German tinge. The Germans came here in the 1880s in search of some of the gold, raw materials and glory Britain and France were winning through empire in the then dark continent They found South West diamonds Afnca is the worlds largest producer of and copper m gem stones but glory escaped abundance, them. German control ended during World War I when South Afncan troops marched into Windhoek and accepted the surrender of the German military commander Trlekle Back The German population then was put at 15,000 By the time South Africa was given a League of Nations mandate to administer the territory in 1921. half of them had either left or been expelled, to come lae the in endured intemmen' Many dunng World War II and of farms and other properties. One of Germany s largest foreign investments of the time, a copper mine at Tsumeb, was seized by South Africa and sold to a consortium after the war Between the two wars it was official policy to the territory This now seems one of the least successful of any of the government's ideas Germans make up a quarter of the 100.000 whites inhabiting the 318,261 square mile territory but have more than a quarter of the say in the way life is fashioned Total population of the territory is about WASHINGTON (LPI) -Simcha Dimtz. 44, Israels fifth to the United ambassador States, was once night watchman at the gray stone embassy building here where he now rules. Steak. Salad The steak and salad fare of the governing country give wav to rostbraten and served by comely waitresses in beer Arab-Israe- li US-Israe- li He is the first Israeli envoy with intimate personal ties with America He has visited mmm n 1968-69- and been a member of tne Israeli delegation to the United Nations. 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CALL t pirBrrr-rrt- y 4f B a a Most of the newcomers are 7, technicians, many of them 2 working for Gentian import companies or agencies. De- 2 mand for German goods is strong and German after-sale- s service adds to the demand . for goods and technicians. 7 SHOP AT EIOf.11 in Q n ML as a diplomat, served here as , Israeli minister from Tousled, wi'd 4- h ALL LABOR i CARRIES q UM IL JR A 7 Draws Tourists Artistic Carpets will com to your homo day or overling with ail our carpet specials in full color selection of some tale prices 01 m cur Btoek No obligation of course. G'onf o 7! South Wests aimosphere draws immigrants and tounsts--from Germany, though few come now with the idea of 7 s farming as they were some-timebegged and bribed to do .2 before 1915 the United States manv times WHEN YOU PURCHASE i - . warm, relaxed type of man, Dimtz replaced It. Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, one of Israel's heroes of the 1967 war Rabin has left relations m good shape. Dimtz' job will be to further strengthen and deepen the alclose ties between ready Washington and Jerusalem A ' . , Windhoek's mam thorough-far- e is Kaiser W Uhelmstrasse and one of its side streets is still named for Goenng, the father of Hermann, Hitler's Luftwaffe leader. Goenng se- mor was the first reichskomis- sar appointed by Chancellor Bism arck to the territory Heads Israeli Embassy Salt Lakes most prestigious Condominium on South Temple at H Street S e Former Night Watchman r : VV - w th o MANSION HOUSE at the lecal Oktoberfest. Hou- ever, lederhose. leather hiking shorts, donned by some are J; ion the in uncomfortable heat degree the territory. Throughout German occupation is eviden' indhoek s Old buildings in main street date back to World War I. So does a1 church at Karibib and the railway station at Swikop- - 2 mund i is as The pumpernickel the rt s fresh Mlgemcne printed Zeitung newspaper daily in W indhoek Though German is no longer an official language, the casual visitor might never know Salutations are given in AfrSouth Afncan Dutch ikaans when not in German Elsewhere the day may begin with breakfast. Here it begins with fruehstueck gardens Hansa. a local lager, last year was second in an international brewing contest bested only by one from Gerand goes down well many 750,000. A : axtSM LIFETIME GUARANTEE 't 0 im.. Ml Ml M HI kMliitM.ma f |