Across the Border

Day dreams of escape spark men's hearts the world over. Wherever discontent and fear and fancied oppression lurk--and that in some measure is always everywhere--men yearn to escape and are stopped by the ugly question: Where? For those behind the world's iron curtains, the urge is stronger. Their fears are seldom without foundation and their path of escape is clear: it lies just over the border.

Last week, on one day alone, a total of 21 Iron Curtain refugees made the desperate dash to freedom. They came from various levels and followed divergent paths. One was a teen-age girl, a refugee from child-labor gangs in Hungary's Communist coal mines. One--Yugoslav airline Chief Pilot Milivoje Arsenijevic--had left a good job and a comfortable apartment in Belgrade. Some were driven by despair, some by disillusion, some by disgust. Some merely saw a chance and grabbed it. All had a goal in common. They gave it no name, but it lay just across the border.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.