Word: asylums
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...Gurion was the great architect and builder of both. Throughout the tragic years from 1936 to 1947, while millions of Jews were rounded up and murdered by the Germans, denied asylum by almost all nations and barred by the British from finding a home in Palestine, he subtly orchestrated a complex strategy: he inspired tens of thousands of young Jews from Palestine to join the British army in fighting the Nazis, but at the same time authorized an underground agency to ship Jewish refugees into the country. As the British were intercepting, deporting and locking away these survivors...
...Unfortunately, little came out of the rambling, self-serving exercise. Dan Rather said that news today is driven by circulation, not standards, and correctly noted that if he had stayed behind in Cuba to cover the pope rather than jetting back to Washington, he would have had to seek asylum from the wrath of his employers. The best line of the night came from an amazingly calm Mike McCurry, on remote from the White House briefing room, who ascribed Air Force One's mud delay to a "conspiracy under the right wing." (Scooping Leno with the joke, it turned...
...much. When ORLANDO ("El Duque") HERNANDEZ, half-brother of World Series MVP Livan Hernandez, reached Bahamian shores after escaping from Cuba on a 20-ft. raft stocked with water, sugar and four cans of Spam, he indignantly, or perhaps shrewdly, turned down an American offer of asylum. Indignantly, because his six shipmates were not also offered asylum. Shrewdly, because, as agent Joe Cubas advised, claiming citizenship in another country will allow him to avoid the major league baseball draft and immediately make big money as a free agent. El Duque and fellow sailor Alberto Hernandez (no relation) had been barred...
...suspension of the New York talks, then, was inevitable as soon as Chang Sung Gil, Pyongyang's ambassador to Egypt, walked into the U.S. Embassy and demanded asylum. Just as inevitably, says Waller, the North Koreans will be back. "They've stalled these talks before." Eventually, he says, Pyongyang will decide that the four-party talks are in its interest ? and though it may sting the national pride, only foreign aid can quiet the rumbling of North Korea's stomach...
...picture of the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks, and a note threatening violence against U.S. and Jewish targets. Khalil was carrying an address book listing the name of a known terrorist. Also found: Abu Mezer's completed application for political asylum in the U.S. on the ground that Israel had falsely accused him of belonging to the fundamentalist group Hamas...