Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January 1963, while Pyotr was in prison, Augustina was among 32 church members who won headlines around the world by barging into the U.S. embassy and begging for asylum. They left when the Soviets promised better treatment. Instead, Pyotr and Augustina lost their home and jobs, Pyotr was confined temporarily to a psychiatric hospital, and both went to prison for several years...
...than a week. He sent Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to Europe to try to sell America's allies on the idea of imposing joint sanctions against Poland and perhaps the Soviet Union as well. He received Poland's Ambassador to the U.S. Romuald Spasowski, who sought political asylum in the U.S. last week, and hailed Spasowski and his wife Wanda for their courage. In his Christmas ad dress, Christmas President expressed the concern with people." Administration over the events in Poland and declared, "If the outrages in Poland do not cease, we cannot and repression not conduct 'business...
...been drawn up in advance: three people on it were out of the country. (Not on the list but determined to protest the "flagrant and brutal" crackdown and to express his "solidarity" with Walesa: Poland's Ambassador to the U.S., Romuald Spasowski, who sought and was swiftly granted asylum along with his wife, daughter and son-in-law.) Last week, after the sudden crackdown, a Gdansk doctor said he realized at last why so many extra beds had been placed in the local military hospital the week before...
...ruled by Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. The Reagan Administration holds that nearly all the Haitian refugees are fleeing their country to escape poverty, not repression, and are thus not eligible to be admitted as political refugees. Others believe that many of the refugees are indeed entitled to political asylum, and cite evidence of those returned being beaten and tortured in Haitian prisons. As Father Gérard Jean-Juste, a Haitian exile leader, puts it, "There's a song being sung in Haiti now: 'The teeth of the sharks are sweeter than Duvalier's hell...
...time before, surrender is a daily event, a subconscious and draining part of living. And then dignity is won in a moment, in that brief flash when you demand what is right and you are not thrown in jail, shot in the back, consigned to an asylum. For the Polish workers, their first demands were quite simple--the rehiring of one shipyard employee, and wage increases. But then solidarity--and from it Solidarity--worked its invigorating power, and soon there was an air of quiet confidence and a long, long list of demands...