Word: bernards
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ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...
...MALTREATMENT OF WOMEN AS A MATTER OF cultural practice tantamount to political persecution? Yes, say opposition M.P.s and feminist groups demanding that Canada grant refugee status to victims of sex-based persecution. The debate ensnared Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt, who reversed a decision denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution. Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and become the first country to enshrine...
...early in the process. Officials claim that when she was first reached by phone while vacationing in Colorado, she was asked, "Do you have an illegal-alien or tax problem?" She answered no. She was then summoned to Washington. In separate meetings on Jan. 29 with White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and President Clinton, the illegal-alien issue was pressed a second and third time. In each instance, Wood denied any problem. Six days later, the vetting process began in earnest. Wood sent her household-employment records by overnight express to Washington, at which point Administration lawyers say they learned...
...example is the immigration precedent established last week by the Canadian government. In a decision made by Bernard Valcourt, the Minister of Employment and Immigration, Canada will now consider granting asylum to women who can show persecution as a result of their gender...
...many as 50 civilians were killed in the violence, including at least seven foreigners. Among them: French Ambassador Philippe Bernard, 61, who apparently died in a machine-gun attack on his embassy as he watched the disturbances. On Friday, Paris and Brussels dispatched a combined force of 700 troops to the region to protect and possibly evacuate their nationals...