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Press, 19 May 1981, Page 8

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Austrian appeal ; Austria’, has appealed to the United States, Canada. and Australia for help in coping with a growing flood of refugees, mainly from Eastern Europe. The Aus-, trian Interior Minister (MrErwin Lane) was quoted as* 'telling the Socialist Party,, that the number of refugees going to Austria in transit to other destinations had nearly; trebled in the last two, years.' More than 3000 refugees’ seeking political asylum had gone,to Austria an^h^‘"firsti quarter)-'of ' this' year,? compared with justfundfer 510,000 for the whole of last'year, he said. Austria runs the biggest refugee camp in Europe at Traiskirche’n, just outside Vienna.—Vienna. ' Schmidt’s stand Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has said that he will.;, stand or fall by his Govern-) ment’s support for the sta-.i tioning of the new American nuclear warheads in - West Germany'. Mr Schmidt' told . officials of his Social Demo-, ■: cratic Party at a rally in Recklinghausen that his future was linked to the reali-? sation of N.A.T.O.'s plans to deploy new American medium-range warheads in Europe while offering the Soviet Union immediate disarmament talks. “I stand or fall by that,” he said,-?: Bonn. * !