Word: asylums
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...came to this country as a refugee," said Wolf who described her escape from Nazi persecution at last night's meeting. "Without asylum, I would be dead. Several members of my family did not make...
...avid interest in Hinduism, might have defected and joined a religious organization. They also did not rule out a possible connection with the Khitrichenko shooting. Early this week it was announced that Gezha had defected to the United States embassy in New Delhi where he was granted political asylum...
Three times in the past 30 months, Chinese defectors have successfully used South Korea as a way station for political asylum in Taiwan. With that in mind, Peking requested last Saturday that the Koreans return the ship and its entire crew. Seoul seemed certain to comply. The mutinous duo, however, are receiving medical treatment in a South Korean hospital. Once they are fit again, they will probably be allowed to go to Taiwan...
...Reagan Administration has fought for the deportation of the criminals and mental patients who were among the 125,000 "freedom flotilla" Cubans who came to the U.S. claiming political asylum. Under an agreement struck with Havana last December, the U.S. can now deport as many as 2,746 Cubans at a rate of 100 a month. "We are afraid that these men being returned to Cuba will be tortured," said Dale Schwartz, an Atlanta attorney who has been fighting to block the deportation of the prisoners. "As for whether it will be a bloodbath, we don't know. There...
...last week, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini charged that "a terrorist multinational has already been formed in France capable of striking throughout Europe." Spadolini lashed out against the French government for sheltering terrorists "in the name of an anachronistic and self-destructive concept of the right of asylum." According to unofficial sources in Rome, at least 270 suspected or convicted Italian terrorists are being granted haven in France...