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...first Haitian boat people were processed aboard a U.S. Navy ship in Kingston, Jamaica, to see if they qualified for asylum in the U.S. Six of 35 petitioners, who were picked up from three small boats, made the cut; the rest will be sent back...
...Hartford Courant drops two weeks of Little Orphan Annie after the pupil- less heroine is railroaded into an insane asylum. Says the publisher: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions...
...Pearl Jam hired Sullivan & Cromwell, the prestigious Manhattan law firm. In a memorandum filed with the Justice Department, the lawyers claimed that Ticketmaster's control over tickets and its exclusive contracts with most of the leading concert arenas constitute anticompetitive behavior that enables it to prop up prices. Soul Asylum, another popular alternative-rock band, jumped into the fray. By week's end Garth Brooks, Neil Young, U2 and Bad Religion had lined up with Pearl Jam, saying they supported Pearl Jam's cause. Says Kelly Curtis, Pearl Jam's manager: "All the band wants...
Offering to help President Clinton keep a sticky political promise he made last month, Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands said they would allow the U.S. to set up centers for hearing Haitian refugees' asylum requests. Since May 8, when Clinton said he would end the U.S. policy of summarily returning boat people, more than 1,400 have nevertheless been forcibly repatriated; the Administration says the first Haitians could begin processing in Jamaica this week...
Clinton, responding to increased protests and a hunger strike by activist Randall Robinson, announced a new U.S. policy in early May. The policy states that Haitians caught on the high seas by the Coast Guard will not be returned to Haiti, but rather will be granted asylum hearings...