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...motives of the movement. Says INS Spokesman Verne Jervis: "What these churches are doing is making a statement of protest against our Government's position in Central America. If they're just interested in helping these people, they can assist them legally by helping the aliens in asylum applications...
...Government considers aliens from most Central American countries economic refugees, thus not eligible for justified asylum. However, the House of Representatives last week passed the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill, which would offer amnesty to aliens who have lived continuously in the U.S. prior to Jan. 1, 1982. This bill must be reconciled with the Senate version, which would establish a date several years earlier. According to John Fife, a leader in the sanctuary movement, this legislation would single out those people who do not qualify under the new guidelines - and also those who offer them shelter. "The U.S. Immigration...
...decision was not as much of a blow to those seeking permission to stay in this country for political reasons as it first seemed. The court carefully limited the ruling to those trying to avoid deportation and left for another day the standards refugees must meet to gain formal asylum...
...couple came two weeks ago from Irina Kristi, a family friend. After a visit to Gorky, she reported that Bonner was being prevented from leaving the city. TASS, the Soviet news agency, accused the U.S. embassy of masterminding Sakharov's hunger strike and plotting to give Bonner political asylum. A senior U.S. official confirmed last week that two embassy officers met with Bonner during her last visit to Moscow in April. He said that Bonner left behind two appeals from Sakharov, but he denied that the embassy had any prior knowledge of the couple's plans. Moscow charged...
...EVEN though Monsieur Artaud was a strange and rather tortured fellow--a French poet-actor who equated sex with eviceration and spent most of his life following the 1935 debut of The Cenci in an insane asylum--and although he wrote a strange and rather tortuous play, his work has been redeemed as more than a curiosity by this Mather House group. Cenci is frequently longwinded, but Wingrove takes stage with sweeping and dynamic gestures, booming tones, and a demonic glint, effectively conveying the sickly obsession of the protagonist. Like her father, Susan Kelly's Beatrice is wronged...