Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hide their identities, many of the fugitives wear masks while on public view in the churches. The United Methodist Church and United Presbyterian Church have asked their 47,000 congregations to proclaim sanctuary, and the board of directors of the American Friends Service Committee has urged Quakers to give asylum to the refugees...
Tennis Star Hu Na gains asylum and strains U.S.-Chinese ties
...Tennis Star Hu Na one night last July slipped out of a California hotel during a tennis tour and went into hiding at a friend's home. But to Peking the issue was a critical test of Chinese-American relations. Worried that Washington might grant Hu Na political asylum, ViceChairman Deng Xiaoping urged the U.S. last August to consider "the greater interests of the relations between the two countries...
...more than eight months, the U.S. agonized over the decision. At the State Department, the Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs argued in favor of granting Hu asylum; its China desk, fearing further deterioration of ties with Peking, disagreed on legal grounds. In the end, the department sent the Immigration and Naturalization Service a weakly worded recommendation in Hu's favor. INS then stalled on her request. But last week, after political pressure began to build, the Justice Department made the final announcement: Justice prevailed. Hu was granted asylum...
...fact, China had hoped to prevent the Hu Na case from adding to the current strains with the U.S. and had sent signals that it would not strongly object if its star tennis player were given an immigration status that did not carry the nettlesome label of political asylum...