Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talent hunt. He can pout and look earnest; one could almost indulge his presence in a high school production of Romeo and Juliet. But he is, at best, a puppy lover, not someone who can portray a lad nurturing his passion for two years in an insane asylum and emerging to find and reclaim his love in the face of all opposition...
...provisional President of Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, only to be denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups...
Civil libertarians and social workers, however, claim the new INS policy, which permits perfunctory, closed hearings, is unfair to the bewildered, mostly illiterate Haitians. Critics challenge the Government's presumption that Haitians come here for economic reasons, and are thus not eligible for political asylum. Most Cuban arrivals, by contrast, are assumed to be fleeing from Communism. Some lawyers for the refugees charge it is racist to single out Haitians, 95% of whom are black, for exclusion...
Exclusionary hearings, part of a standard process for immigrants whom the INS finds undesirable, have been held for 1,559. A mere 38 were granted asylum. Some 90% of the prisoners have been judged "excludable" and await deportation. Yet Cuba refuses to accept any Marielito, criminal...
...kept blacks off the ballot. In the same election, Gilmore became sheriff. Says Branch: "I used to tell my students to prepare themselves, that they could some day be elected to public office. They looked at me like I was a graduate of an insane asylum...