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...fire blazed through a hostel for refugees in Lubeck, Germany, killing four children and six adults. Asylum seekers from 19 countries lived there, among them immigrants from Syria, Zaire, Togo and Poland...
...revived since communism collapsed in Eastern Europe. In Romania and the Czech Republic, mobs have burned Gypsies' homes and beaten their occupants, sometimes to death. Police and legal authorities have generally condoned these atrocities. In desperation, thousands of East European Gypsies--500,000 in 1991 alone--have applied for asylum in the West. Rather than accept repatriation after a 1992 pact between Germany and Romania, Romanian Gypsies in German relocation camps destroyed their identity cards. They were deported anyway...
...flight attendant hijacked an Iranian jetliner with more than 170 people aboard after it took off from Tehran, then forced it to land at an Israeli air force base. Sam Allis, in Jerusalem, reports that the hijacker first sought political asylum in the U.S., then asked for asylum in Israel. He surrendered about an hour after the plane landed at Ovda Airforce Base in Israel's southern Negev Desert. (Jordan and Saudi Arabia both refused the hijacker's requests to land in those countries.) Allis says the man was also turned down at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv...
...museum officials hope for plenty of contrast. They estimate that the hall will draw 1 million visitors annually; 250,000 people are expected to attend this weekend's festivities, which will include an all-star megaconcert featuring Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Soul Asylum, Snoop Doggy Dogg and others...
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has reportedly offeredSaddam Husseinpolitical asylum in the hope that the rogue regime in Baghdad might be replaced. An advance copy of Saturday's Al-Hayat, a London-based Arab newspaper, obtained by the Associated Press quotes Mubarak explaining his offer as "a solution to the problem of the Iraqi people and to prevent a bloodbath in Iraq."World editor James Collinssays the plan probably doesn't mean Saddam will leave Iraq anytime soon. "Given current circumstances, it's not a highly meaningful offer.The cracks in the Baghdad regimeare widening, but Saddam isn't that desperate...