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...when 300,000 people had peacefully marched through Berlin to show opposition to the wave of racism and right-wing violence that has brought back ugly memories of an earlier Germany. Ever since last August, when a mob in Rostock besieged and burned a house for asylum seekers to the applause of 2,000 bystanders, Germans have watched in growing dismay as a xenophobic fever spread across the land. Right-wing extremists, neo-Nazis and ordinary youths have committed 1,760 attacks, mainly against foreigners, this year. They have desecrated Jewish cemeteries and memorials and set fires at two former...
After the coup in Haiti which deposed a democratically elected leader, Haitians streamed out of the island nation, many of them facing possible political persecution. Most came to the U.S. in search of asylum. Bush turned them away...
Whatever the case, Bush's policy intended to force every refugee to return to Haiti. No interviews were conducted, no opportunity for temporary asylum was offered--nothing. Bush assumed that all of them were lying...
...Rene Clair. One of the first films in which the images and events do not follow a narrative continuity, but are related on the principles of the unconscious works. A Page of Madness/Kurutta Ippeiji. Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Depicts the inner world of insane people, confined in a lunatic asylum. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 7:30 p.m. $4 for students and seniors; $5 for general admission...
GERMAN VIOLENCE TOWARD Bosnian and Romanian refugees, says Foreign Minister KLAUS KINKEL, has filled the government with "deep shame." But the civil unrest has also inspired fear. Since January, more than 320,000 Bosnians, Croatians and Romanians have sought asylum in Germany. The German government is now paying the Romanian government to repatriate its citizens but still expects at least 130,000 more refugees to arrive by the end of the year. Germany provides asylum seekers with housing, food and free medical care. But unemployment in the area of eastern Germany where they are housed averages 30%, adding fuel...