Word: asylums
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...because, unlike Cubans, they do not qualify as "political" refugees. Deportation proceedings, however, have been held up pending the outcome of legal proceedings. Last week a class-action suit was brought by the Haitians in a Miami federal court. The refugees argue that they should be eligible for political asylum because the regime of President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier is one of the most repressive in the Caribbean...
...return to his tribe so that the Prophet might avoid even a faint suspicion that he had taken Rafi as a hostage. Muhammad declared flatly, "I do not break treaties, nor do I make prisoners of envoys." The Koran 9:6 insists that even a religious enemy be granted asylum and conveyed to safety...
...most dramatic protests against the austerities and repression of life in Cuba in years. Last week more than 7,000 men, women and children poured through the gates and clambered over the walls of the Peruvian embassy on Havana's spacious Avenida Quinta, demanding asylum. Some accounts put the figure as high as 10,800. There they remained through a week of tension and confusion as Latin American diplomats agonized over what to do with them...
...headlong rush for freedom was touched off after six asylum-seeking Cubans in a bus rammed through the embassy gate; in the fracas, a policeman was killed. Cuban authorities subsequently announced that they were withdrawing their guards from the embassy. Havana has had an ongoing dispute with Peru and other Latin American countries over their policy of granting political asylum to gatecrashing Cubans who manage to gain entrance to their embassies. There is some suspicion that in withdrawing guards from the Peruvian compound officials knew what would happen: thousands of unhappy Cubans from every walk of life began streaming into...
...visit to the embassy, President Fidel Castro told the asylum seekers that they would all be given visas to leave if other countries would accept them. He also assured them that they could move freely out of the embassy, but many refused to budge, fearful that they would not be readmitted or would be beaten up by the pro-regime bullyboys who waited just outside. Meanwhile, Peruvian officials, pleading that they could not possibly accommodate all the refugees, called an emergency meeting of the Andean pact nations. At week's end all five members -Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia...