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...after Jan. 20 stood idle at docks all over the island last week as Haitians tried to figure out what to do. A barricade of 17 U.S. Coast Guard cutters and five Navy ships offshore has temporarily halted the threatened exodus inspired by Clinton's campaign promise to ease asylum rules. When Haitians took his election victory as a guarantee of Uncle Sam's embrace and began to build more boats, Clinton quickly announced he would follow Bush's policy of forced return "for the time being...
...anything to get elected. His aides backed away from a promise to trim the White House staff 25%; plans to present an economic blueprint on Jan. 21 were postponed six weeks. After condemning as "callous" the Bush policy of turning back boatloads of Haitians, including those with valid asylum claims, Clinton had to reverse himself when he found out that as many as 10,000 Haitians were preparing to brave dangerous seas once he was sworn in. Last week he embraced the Bush policy, at least for the time being, and urged the would-be immigrants to stay home...
...million unemployed Germans are understandably concerned because their country has become a powerful magnet for foreigners seeking asylum. The number of refugees streaming in -- and looking for work -- rose a record 71% last year, to 440,000. Now there's a proposed solution: a high-tech incarnation of Berlin's infamous Wall. Intended to control immigration from Poland and the former Czechoslovakia, the "electronic wall" (as critics now call it) will consist of mobile radar and infrared units similar to those used in other Western countries. Testing begins next month...
...Haitians watched angrily as 48 Cubans who hijacked an airliner out of Havana earlier this month were released almost overnight. Hundreds of black Haitians -- who risked a 600-mile sea voyage in rickety boats to flee an often cruel military rule -- have been detained for months while their asylum claims are reviewed...
...pilot and passengers on an internal flight bound for a popular resort tied up their co-pilot, knocked out a security guard with chloroform and, 50 minutes later, were gleefully exchanging high-fives on the tarmac at Miami Airport. All but five of the 53 people aboard requested asylum...