Word: asylum
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...Orleans, a dispute continued to simmer over the fate of Miroslav Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both times. After Ukrainian-American groups protested that Medvid had been pressured by the Soviets into retracting his request for asylum, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took the extraordinary step of issuing a subpoena for Medvid to appear before a Senate committee (see following story...
...returned. Though stories have circulated about how Yurchenko disappeared, including an account carried this month by Actuel, a French magazine, which claims that Yurchenko met his CIA contact in the Sistine Chapel, U.S. officials refuse to reveal details. The State Department, however, reiterated last week that Yurchenko requested political asylum at the U.S. embassy...
That’s when it really hit me: Veronica Mars isn’t real. (There’s still no need to call the asylum.) No one is as articulate as Veronica Mars. No one is as self-assured, as charming, as vivacious. The same things that make “Veronica Mars” an amazing drama make Veronica Mars an impossible person. She is inherently unrealistic...
...turnout produces a potentially fatal no vote. In Spain last week, 77% of those who went to the polls voted yes, and though turnout was just 42%, the result was a big win for supporters of the document, which extends the E.U.'s reach into areas like immigration and asylum; recalibrates voting procedures among member states; and creates the positions of E.U. President and E.U. Foreign Minister - basic requirements, backers say, for a Europe that punches its weight on the world stage. Hoping to ride Spain's momentum, the government of the Netherlands - where disenchantment with...
...make up a mushrooming support network. These people often become not only a detainee's only regular link with the outside world but their de facto case managers, investigators and lobbyists. Many spend hours every week finding everything from lawyers to medical advice, tracking down evidence to support asylum seekers' claims and lobbying for action on languishing cases. When lawyers are too busy to visit clients, or too far from remote detention centers, advocates frequently make the trip instead. "We do the legwork," says advocate Rossell. When Farhad's court appeal was being prepared, Bernadette Wauchope, of Port Pirie, South...