Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pastora is washed up. On May 9, six of his top commanders signed on with the United Nicaraguan Opposition, the U.S.-backed contra force, taking with them most of ARDE's troops. At week's end Pastora said that he is abandoning the contra struggle and will seek political asylum in Costa Rica...
...Tucson defendants, citing churches' traditional offers of asylum to those fleeing pursuers and the U.S. underground railroad for 19th century slaves, steadfastly claimed that they had a religious duty to aid people who fear abuse, prison or even death in their homeland. But to the Federal Government, which last year prosecuted 18,000 cases of smuggling illegal aliens, church activists warrant no special treatment. Says Commissioner Alan C. Nelson of the Immigration and Naturalization Service: "No group, no matter how well meaning and highly motivated, can arbitrarily violate the laws of the United States...
...second federal suit connected with the Tucson case has been filed in San Francisco by a coalition of 80 national and local religious bodies. They argue that all Sanctuary prosecutions should be halted because this church activity is legal under a 1980 U.S. law that grants asylum to refugees fleeing political persecution...
...Tucson, the tumultuous six-month "sanctuary" trial went to the jury last week. Lawyers defending the church workers pleaded with Federal Judge Earl Carroll to let them point out the inconsistency of the Government's asylum policy to the jurors. The judge ruled that this was irrelevant. Earlier, he had banned any testimony about persecution in the refugees' home country or about the religious and humanitarian motives of the defendants in providing sanctuary. Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Reno doggedly confined the prosecution's case to charges that the religious groups conspired to smuggle aliens into the U.S. and thus violated...
...hour interview with TIME. During the session he indicated that he is rapidly regaining confidence as he emerges from a period of isolation and depression that followed his expulsion from power. While qualifying his remarks with expressions of gratitude to his American hosts for granting him asylum, the former leader insisted that he had intelligence reports indicating that "some Americans had helped in the preparation of the coup." He continued: "We cannot confirm it, but it included plans to assassinate both the First Lady...