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When they learn that their applications for political asylum in the U.S. are finally about to be dealt with, they trek to a makeshift Immigration and Naturalization Service post at the newly opened Port Isabel Processing Center, 25 miles away. Two weeks ago, angry local officials forced the shutdown of an INS office in Harlingen to rid the town of 500 refugees who have been shoehorned into overcrowded shelters and camps since last year. At Port Isabel, the refugees, clutching their meager possessions, line up to be fingerprinted and questioned by immigration officials -- and then wait some more to find...
...shattered Afghanistan, the outlook ahead is far grimmer: more war, more bloodshed, more despair. With 1 million dead, 2 million uprooted from their homes and another 5 million claiming temporary asylum in neighboring countries, Afghanistan is bracing for a duel to the death between Najibullah's shaky regime and the U.S.-backed mujahedin rebels. No one knows whether the Soviets will mount cross-border air raids to thwart the rebels' designs, or if Washington intends to keep open its not-so-covert arms pipeline through Pakistan to the rebels. But even if the superpowers bow out entirely, both sides...
...taking 11.8% of the vote and 17 seats. The returns seemed to reflect less a sudden shift in the electorate's ideological complexion than a general dissatisfaction with the larger parties. Chronic housing shortages, spiraling rents, tightened health and pension programs and a continuing influx of ethnic Germans and asylum-seeking refugees all conspired to deal the Christian Democrats what Diepgen called a "devastating reversal...
Franz Schonhuber, 66, the burly national chairman of the Republican Party, capitalized on that disillusionment. During the campaign, he called for the repatriation, in stages, of foreign workers, an obvious reference to the 120,000 Turks in West Berlin. He also urged tough measures to stem the flow of asylum-seekers, proclaiming that a "multiracial society is a red flag to our party. We don't want it." On election night, Schonhuber exulted, "Today the Germans have shown again the need for a democratically purified patriotism...
...Bonn, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not take the setback lightly. His Christian Democrats have lost ground in six of the last eight regional elections. "It is a clear warning signal to all of us," he said. Kohl pledged to reassess policies dealing with refugees who seek asylum for economic, rather than political reasons, but warned that expulsion of foreign workers would jeopardize West Germany's standing abroad...