Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are 25 million Italian Americans. That is half the population of Italy. How many antifascists, how many Jews, how many persecuted people have saluted the Statue of Liberty with tears in their eyes, knowing they were entering a country that would give them hospitality and political asylum? How many peasants from southern Italy have gone to the U.S. because in Italy they did not have the wherewithal to live, while in America they found a place to work, a job? All this ties us to the U.S., ties us not only on political grounds but on the grounds...
...Doctor," reproves the Black Lion of Uganda, "for an African you are looking very white." Statesman, sportsman, raconteur, eccentric gourmet, General Idi Amin Dada made a lot of people blanch in his eight years as Uganda's dictator. With Amin now in asylum in Saudi Arabia, Director Sharad Patel has felt free to turn this biopic into a minstrel show of atrocity. Amin struts across his domain like Kong with a salad of Day-Glo medals pinned to his chest. Amin expels Asian workers from Uganda and distributes the spoils to his private army of hitmen. Amin services...
...leave the country and apply through a U.S. consulate. Brutus was willing to go along with INS's plan as long as the agency would guarantee him that he could reenter the United States. When INS refused to provide that assurance, he applied to the State Department for political asylum...
...captured Nicaraguan commando who had helped lead the insurrection in El Salvador. But when police let him loose to show the way to one of his purported contacts, he disappeared into San Salvador's Mexican embassy, which said he was only a student and granted him asylum. Then there were two Nicaraguan air force defectors who were scheduled to bear witness to their country's involvement in El Salvador but by week's end were judged "not ready" to face the press. Finally, there was a young Nicaraguan soldier who was produced by the State Department...
...PARADE. 1936: FRANCES FARMER, A MOVIE STAR AT 21. 1937: HOLLYWOOD BLOND WINS ACCLAIM IN BROADWAY'S GOLDEN BOY. 1938: STAR CAMPAIGNS FOR SPANISH LEFTISTS. 1939: FARMER WALKS OUT ON ROLE IN HEMINGWAY PLAY. 1942: FRANCES FARMER "DEPORTED" FROM MEXICO. 1943: ACTRESS ARRESTED, PLACED IN INSANE ASYLUM. 1945: FRANCES FARMER DISAPPEARS AGAIN, IS FOUND. 1950: EX-STAR RELEASED AFTER YEARS IN VIOLENT WARD. 1958: FRANCES FARMER, THIS IS YOUR LIFE! 1970: FRANCES FARMER, ACTRESS, DEAD OF CANCER...