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...Texas until they posted $1,000 bonds, freeing them until they appeared before immigration judges for hearings. Of 7,500 Haitian refugees processed by officials in southern Florida since 1972, there have been final decisions in only 216 cases: 158 have been deported to Haiti and 58 granted asylum. Then, in keeping with the Carter Administration's emphasis on human rights, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service started releasing the Haitians with temporary work permits pending hearings...
Most of the refugees have requested political asylum, which the U.S. usually grants speedily to those who have actually fled political persecution. But immigration officials believe that the majority of the Haitians have come in search of jobs and should thus be deported. Agrees Haitian Ambassador Georges Salomon: "Only jobs will keep them at home. We are pressing the United States Government to help us create more jobs in Haiti...
...duel that could take two grueling months to play out, is, of all things, a Soviet defector: Victor Korchnoi, 47, a tempestuous, irritable man who narrowly lost to Karpov in a 1974 Moscow match. He blamed his defeat on harassment by Soviet officialdom, and later sought asylum in The Netherlands, leaving behind a wife and child. (He eventually moved to West Germany, then Switzerland...
...list was Marko Krpan, 26, who was sentenced by a West German court to 10½ years in prison for shooting Yugoslav Düsseldorf Vice Consul Vladimir Topic. But some of the "political terrorists" are considered by Bonn to be political refugees; among them is Nikola Milivevis, who was granted asylum in West Germany since his only "crime" appeared to be that he headed the Catholic Croatian Workers Movement, which had no known ties to extremism...
...relevance of all this to interpersonal relationships. One shot shows Ichazo seated amidst the rural setting of a Colorado foothill (complete with a waterfall in background) as a trainee praises him: "Oscar's like a brother who's done it for you. I'm grateful." An alumnus of an asylum describes Arica as "the experience of the positive," Thanks to the wondrous effects of this theory and approach to life, of the trainee declares that he can look back on the "experience" of having passed his 33rd birthday in a mental hospital as a "totally necessary" one. If the makers...