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Later, an attack by Marvin's men on Nazis holed up in a Belgian insane asylum recalls the charming ballet of war in King of Hearts. Fuller's use of music and symbols is again heavy-handed and the sequence ends with a madman firing a machine gun with berserk glee and shouting, "I am sane, I am sane," but poetic camera movement and a sense of humor, even about death, make the scene more than just another "Who's-really-insane?" routine...
...Political asylum allows Walter to stay," says INS Spokesman Verne Jervis. "That's all it does. It does not require him to stay or deal with the issue of custody." Chicago Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Mooney scheduled a hearing this week to determine whether Walter will be placed in the custody of one of his two U.S. aunts or be returned to his father. Although U.S. custody law has traditionally sought to avoid splitting up families under almost any circumstances, Walter's attorney will argue that his future would be seriously jeopardized by being forced to return...
...school, a bicycle I fixed myself. Here is better than my country. I would rather never see my parents than leave Chicago." With that, a seemingly routine runaway case became an international issue. With rare speed, the Immigration and Naturalization Service approved young Walter's petition for "political asylum," a claim made possible by a recent change in the immigration laws that allows "a person," no age specified, to seek such refuge; before, a parent or guardian had to sign a request for asylum by a minor...
Earlier this month more than 200 Afghans and Ethiopians were stranded for five days at Frankfurt airport; Mayor Walter Wallmann refused to accept them on the grounds that his city had already absorbed 8,000 asylum seekers this year, at a cost of $12 million. Eventually, the refugees were given temporary shelter at an already overcrowded camp for asylum seekers in Bavaria-the only one of its kind in West Germany. But Franz Josef Strauss, minister-president (governor) of Bavaria, has warned: "We cannot continue to push these poor people around...
...camps to handle the immigrants as they arrive. The camps, built at federal expense, would reduce the financial strain on local governments. Last week the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) instead moved to slow the increasingly burdensome influx of foreigners by passing a tough new set of regulations on asylum applications. Asylum seekers will not be eligible for work permits during their first year in West Germany, nor will family-support payments be made unless asylum has been confirmed. Judicial procedures will be streamlined, so that applications can be processed within two years. Says a Bonn immigration official...