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Refugees are reluctant to apply for legal political asylum in the United States because it means revealing personal information that could endanger their families at home. Few who apply are actually granted asylum. Wetherall said...
...country like one. With her husband, mother-in-law and two children, 3 and 7, Berg drove the family Volvo to Czechoslovakia, the only foreign country that East Germans can visit without an exit permit. In Prague they headed for the West German embassy, claimed refuge and demanded asylum in the Federal Republic. Then Berg revealed her identity: she was, she said, the niece of East German Premier Willi Stoph, the second most important man in the Communist hierarchy...
Germans against seeking asylum in West German diplomatic missions. Another East German gesture was a quiet decision to begin dismantling some of the automatic firing devices aimed at preventing escapes along the border. East Germany has turned control of Berlin's entire surface rapid-transit system over to West Berlin. On the eve of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's funeral in Moscow last month, Chancellor Kohl asked East German President Erich Honecker to dinner and reissued a longstanding invitation to him to visit West Germany...
...18th century it was considered chic to spend an evening at the local lunatic asylum, laughing at the inmates. In the 20th century you can be asked to leave a dinner party for making a joke about the mentally disturbed or deficient. Perhaps the kindest thing to be said about our century is that it has managed to make this modest improvement in manners. Perhaps the kindest way to describe Crackers is to say that it is informed by the older sensibility. Louis Malle's remake of the unfunny 1958 Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street has gained...
...left Peking for his first visit to the U.S. and talks with President Reagan this week, Zhao indicated a disarming willingness to help eliminate the obstacles that have stood in the way of closer relations between the two countries. Among the major difficulties: Washington's granting of political asylum to Chinese Tennis Player Hu Na; Peking's curtailment of cultural exchanges with the U.S.; a Chinese boycott of American agricultural products; and, most troublesome of all, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan...