Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since 1975, when Communist regimes took power in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, more than a million Indochinese have fled those countries seeking asylum in neighboring countries, according to a State Department news release distributed at the speech...
Palmieri said although these numbers are impressive, they still are not proportionate to the large number of refugees in first-asylum countries, and the masses still arriving...
Diplomatic sources said yesterday three Latin American countries--Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama--have also offered the guerrillas political asylum...
...Kennedy International Airport; an elegant suite at Philadelphia's Barclay Hotel; a condominium in the Regency Towers, along the seashore in Ventnor, N.J. For flexibility, another sheik was created, Yasser Habib. He claimed that he might one day have to flee his home country and seek asylum in the U.S. That asylum could be provided if a member of Congress would introduce a private bill, granting him special status to bypass normal immigration procedures. The sheik would, of course, generously reward any legislator willing to sponsor such legislation. (In past years as many as 7,300 private immigration bills...
...Congressmen turned up at the FBI'S rented house on Washington's W Street, often with Criden at their side, to learn about the largesse of the second FBI sheik, Yasser Habib, the one who was hoping to find asylum in the U.S. Habib welcomed his visitors under lights so bright that the lawmakers squinted. These lights had been installed to facilitate the secret videotaping, but the sheik's aides explained that he kept them bright because he missed the blazing sun of his homeland. To each Congressman, the pitch was the same: the sheik feared trouble...