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Person of the Week CAST AWAY Australian Prime Minister John Howard wanted a Norwegian cargo ship full of asylum-seekers to take its payload elsewhere. The freighter's crew rescued more than 400 mostly Afghan refugees from a sinking Indonesian ferry. But Howard's hard line kept them in limbo for days...
AUSTRALIA Asylum Seekers at Sea Aweeklong standoff over a refugee-laden ship ended after Australia devised a plan to send some 460 asylum seekers to other countries. New Zealand agreed to accept 150 of the migrants, while Australia will foot the bill for the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru to take the rest temporarily. The refugees had been in watery limbo ever since a Norwegian cargo ship, the Tampa, rescued them from a foundering wooden ferry off the Indonesian coast. They demanded that the skipper take them to the Australian territory of Christmas Island or to "any Western country...
...arranged for the family to take a 24-hour bus trip to the capital. (They went in two buses, to increase the chances that at least some of them would make it.) In Beijing, he walked the family into the UNHCR office, beginning one of the highest-profile asylum cases China has seen. For the Jangs, it worked out. The UNHCR's chief representative in Beijing, Colin Mitchell, said it would have been "unthinkable" to repatriate the family. But if Moon's gambit forces China to post just a few soldiers outside the compound?or 100,000 at the border...
...ethnic group. Up to 50,000 people fled their homes after a series of revenge attacks. Ethnic and religious unrest has racked Nigeria since it returned to democracy two years ago. CHINA Safe Harbor China granted safe passage to a North Korean family of seven who sought asylum at the Beijing office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. China normally repatriates North Koreans, but the family were allowed to leave for Southeast Asia, purportedly for health reasons. They later went on to South Korea. China's face-saving decision came ahead of next week's vote on Beijing...
...Born in Prague to Jewish parents on the eve of the second World War, Albright and her family fled to London in 1939 and were granted asylum in the United States nine years later...