Word: expelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the nation, city resolutions granting sanctuary to Central American refugees have had little impact on the government's ability to seek out and expel foreigners living here illegally. Among the cities which have declared themselves refugee sanctuaries are Ithaca N.Y., Berkeley, Calif., and St. Paul, Minn. While the city of Los Angeles rescinded its sanctuary status last month, the governor of New Mexico two weeks ago declared the state a haven for illegal aliens. Brookline is the only other Massachusetts community which has declared itself a sanctuary...
...more interested in negotiating safeguards designed to keep Nicaragua from spreading insurrection to their countries, in short, a policy of containment. In 1984 the so-called Contadora group --Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama--got Nicaragua to agree to a proposal to reduce the size of its army and expel foreign advisers. The U.S. balked at the proposal, however, because it set no timetables for the departure of Nicaragua's Cuban advisers, offered no means of verification and did not address internal reforms in Nicaragua...
...sounds Reaganesque, but in today's Philippines, less government means greater civil liberties as well as unfettered markets. Aquino raised the issue of decentralization before the election when she outlined a detailed plan for her first 100 days in office. Among the promises: to unshackle the government-controlled press, expel corrupt judges, and repeal labor laws that permit police to order strikers back to work...
...week's end Lesotho had begun to expel the A.N.C. militants. It appealed to the United Nations to help find new sanctuaries for them. Said Lekhanya: "The security of the refugees (in Lesotho) has become precarious." Clampdowns on activists were also rumored to be under way in Botswana and Zimbabwe...
...conspiracy and perjury charges. His first trial ended in a hung jury last February. But last week a jury of eight women and four men pronounced the 39-year-old lawyer guilty of one count of conspiracy and twelve counts of perjury--convictions that, if upheld, would automatically expel him from office and bring him up to eight years in prison. Hedgecock resigned two days later...