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...going to defect from a "rogue state" and are looking for the United States to provide a quick resolution of your asylum case, best be equipped with a briefcaseful of shocking state secrets. Then you'll both end up on "60 Minutes" and with red-carpet treatment from the State Department. Washington looks likely to give serious attention to the claims of Ahmad Behbahani, the self-styled former Iranian intelligence honcho who, despite being sequestered in a Turkish refugee camp, managed to get his message to the Sunday-night CBS news show. His bombshell claim: that Iran, rather than Libya...
...warship of an Iranian airliner earlier in 1988. "The question remains whether he'll be able to prove these allegations," says Dowell. "There's always the question of whether he's selling that story to make himself more attractive to the U.S. in his quest for asylum here...
...down by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday, but Mr. Gonzalez - like Elian himself - no longer lives there. The court upheld the Justice Department's decision to send Elian home to his father, dismissing the Miami relatives' claim that the six-year-old is entitled to file an asylum request independently of his father's wishes. But the question of whether Elian is free to go home will be determined by whether the Atlanta court, or the Supreme Court, is prepared to grant the Miami relatives' request to extend the injunction against removing the boy from...
...Graham's newest movie makes clever use of its title-Graham is both extremely attached to her husband and does a short stint in an insane asylum. She plays Joline, a New York club owner with a heart of gold. Joline leads a blessed life (as if you didn't already know this) and she is known as a woman who never ever goes back on her word. When Joline's husband Carl (Luke Wilson), a photojournalist whose employer is limiting him to culinary photography, leaves her with the only clue to his whereabouts-a postcard with a cactus...
...days to appeal to the Supreme Court. If the Miami family loses, however, it remains to be seen whether the judges will extend their order requiring that Elian remain in the U.S. If they win all the way to the highest court, of course, Elian will get an asylum hearing - which, as Judge Edmondson pointed out, is handled not by the courts...