Word: asylums
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...commercial messages have to go, what about commercial advertisements in the ballpark? I worry that Budweiser, the Gap, Coke and Pepsi might be booted so that their bourgeois materialism does not reach the Cuban team's virgin ears--as the celebrated billboards that read "Hit this sign, win political asylum" will be. The rituals of the game would still be there but not the spirit...
...stole whatever they could from the common supply rooms so that humanitarian relief workers had to keep supplies locked up and were audacious enough simply to leave their children outside of doctor's offices and depart, expecting the doctors to care for their children. East Germany had no real asylum laws, which coupled with West Germany's generosity led refugees to promote Germany as the promised land to all of their suffering countrymen at home. This demonstrated what Fritz calls a "basic principle of migration. The more pilgrims migrated to the promised land, the less promising it became...
...feel happy and relaxed until I look up and see a skywriter message for me. It says, "U will pay 4 your insolence" and is signed by "Rudy." I become nervous and seek political asylum at Stanford claiming student rights abuses...
...fall Turkey threatened to invade unless Syria handed Ocalan over. Unwilling to fight a war over a revolutionary vagabond, the Syrians in October dispatched Ocalan to Athens, then to Moscow. Five weeks later, following Russia's refusal to grant him refugee status, he flew to Rome and requested political asylum. In the face of Turkish diplomatic and economic threats, Italy refused and on Jan. 16 sent the guerrilla back to Russia...
...point Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos decided to extend "humanitarian assistance" to Ocalan. As a historic foe of Turkey, Greece had long supported the Kurdish cause, but shied away from giving the guerrilla leader refugee status. Pangalos hoped to muster a European Union-wide agreement to grant him political asylum. Ocalan and two aides were spirited to Athens on Jan. 29. Once there, Greece offered Ocalan only a bleak choice of destinations: Algeria, Morocco, Tunis or Libya. "We refused," fumes a Greek close to Ocalan. "What did they think Ocalan was, a cargo of contraband cigarettes...