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Tennis Star Hu Na gains asylum and strains U.S.-Chinese ties
...Tennis Star Hu Na one night last July slipped out of a California hotel during a tennis tour and went into hiding at a friend's home. But to Peking the issue was a critical test of Chinese-American relations. Worried that Washington might grant Hu Na political asylum, ViceChairman Deng Xiaoping urged the U.S. last August to consider "the greater interests of the relations between the two countries...
...more than eight months, the U.S. agonized over the decision. At the State Department, the Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs argued in favor of granting Hu asylum; its China desk, fearing further deterioration of ties with Peking, disagreed on legal grounds. In the end, the department sent the Immigration and Naturalization Service a weakly worded recommendation in Hu's favor. INS then stalled on her request. But last week, after political pressure began to build, the Justice Department made the final announcement: Justice prevailed. Hu was granted asylum...
...article critical of Captain Alfredo Astiz, the officer who surrendered the Argentine garrison on South Georgia to the British and who was accused of torture and murder after infiltrating the human rights movement during the "dirty war" in 1977. La Semana's editor, Jorge Fontevecchia, successfully sought asylum in Venezuela last week. Shortly thereafter, however, a federal court judge ruled that there was nothing offensive in the article and ordered the junta to free all 20,000 seized copies of the magazine for distribution...
KLAUS BARBIE almost got away with genocide. With the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Barbie, the notorious Gestapo chief of Lyon in occupied France, mysteriously slipped through an international dragnet and found asylum in South America, leaving behind the bodies of thousands of his victims. For thirty-two years he evaded Nazi hunters and scoffed at extradition attempts and death sentences passed in absentia by the French courts of justice. Barbie had played the war crime game...