Word: au
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learn what a real Belgian passport looks like," he continues. "All those Au Pair girls with their international student I.D. cards are laughed...
...world politics. The democratic regime is simply too far left and Haiti too small to elicit an impassioned response from Bush. Though not a communist, Aristide is a left-wing priest, steeped in liberation theology, known and adored in the ghetto that is most of Port-au-Prince. (His beautiful little book is called In the Precincts of the Poor...
...hundreds, Haitian boat people in search of asylum in the U.S. were delivered by Coast Guard cutters back to Port-au-Prince. Each was fingerprinted and photographed by local immigration officers. Just routine procedure, police assured scores of foreign journalists. But the swiftness with which the returnees melted into the population suggested that these Haitians were more than a little skeptical -- perhaps with good cause...
...months. "Cap Haitien," Marcelin answered, referring to a city in north Haiti. "You were over there in Guantanamo, not Cap Haitien," one of the men responded. "O.K., we'll come for you. We'll come and kill you." Soon after that, Marcelin boarded a bus back to Port-au-Prince and went into hiding...
While awaiting the court's ruling, the State Department unveiled a new policy: Haitians will now be permitted to apply for asylum at the U.S. embassy in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Unless the rules are eased, the program will be restricted to just 300 Haitians over the next eight months, and it will confine admission to former political prisoners and applicants who are in "imminent danger" of persecution...