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...many in the middle class and the government bureaucracy. As if sensing greater misery ahead, record numbers of Haitians fled by sea last week to U.S. shores. Officials in Washington question whether all of the boat people have a "well- founded fear of persecution," the international standard for political asylum, and refuse to grant the newcomers protection even temporarily. People closer to the action describe conditions that argue for at least short-term refuge. Rene Theodore, Haiti's Prime Minister-designate, is worried that the country "is being held hostage by thugs...
...current question is, what will happen toJeff Dahmer? We know, at least, that he won't beshot, for he'll spend the entire trial behind aneight-foot high bulletproof wall separating himfrom ogling spectators. In twenty years, let'sassume that he'll be in an insane asylum,prevented by a strait-jacket from munching his ownbody parts. In any case, we will have more or lessforgotten about J.D. and his merry apartment.The SunJeff Dahmer...
From a safe haven across the Armenian border in the town of Idzhevan, Gamsakhurdia wasted no time in lashing out against the Military Council, blaming criminals, bandits and a communist "Mafia" for his defeat. The Armenians have not offered Gamsakhurdia political asylum, but they also have not pressured him to leave the republic. It is clearly a ticklish diplomatic problem. If Gamsakhurdia attempts to go abroad, Georgia's current leaders say they will press for his extradition to stand trial on criminal charges. But as long as the deposed President remains so close to home, he will continue...
...East German quickly found a friend: Clodomiro Almeyda, the Chilean ambassador to Moscow, who had been given refuge in East Germany following the $ bloody 1973 coup in Chile. Almeyda invited Honecker to stay in his embassy while he asked his government to give Honecker asylum. Then came Santiago's response...
Atkins ruled that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had used inadequate methods to distinguish Haitians who are genuine political refugees from economic migrants who are not eligible for asylum. Attorneys for the Haitians found that INS officers had insufficient knowledge of the grounds for asylum and knew virtually nothing about political conditions in Haiti. The government has been given a week to draw up new procedures. Meanwhile, the seaborne exodus from Haiti shows no signs of slowing down...