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...Iraqi businessman tortures his well-worn black worry beads. "I don't want to lie to you," Ihsan Barbouti tells the interviewer in his charmingly imperfect English, then adds disconcertingly, "and I don't want to tell you the truth also at the same time." Asked whether he ever dealt in deadly weapons, he says, "I have done nothing bad. I don't deal with arms. Arms dealing is the opposite of my character. But I don't deal with something else. I don't deal with cigarettes, because I feel cigarettes is against the health...
When they learn that their applications for political asylum in the U.S. are finally about to be dealt with, they trek to a makeshift Immigration and Naturalization Service post at the newly opened Port Isabel Processing Center, 25 miles away. Two weeks ago, angry local officials forced the shutdown of an INS office in Harlingen to rid the town of 500 refugees who have been shoehorned into overcrowded shelters and camps since last year. At Port Isabel, the refugees, clutching their meager possessions, line up to be fingerprinted and questioned by immigration officials -- and then wait some more to find...
...really tried to take a unique approach to the issues we dealt with," said Sabatine. "We wanted to have all of the topics really apply to the real world...
...think he first knew for sure that he could handle the job when he was at Treasury," says Jamie Baker. "Before that, he had very successfully dealt with all manner of politicians at home. Then he prevailed in a complex negotiation with some very savvy foreigners in a field he knew not too much about. To relate it to basketball, I think that's when Dad, in his own mind, realized for certain that he could play above...
...ending a long period in which the Chinese were regarded as dangerously destabilizing. Second, America's strategic position, widely assumed to be imperiled by the disastrous ending of its involvement in the Viet Nam War, was unexpectedly enhanced. Finally, the new relationship between China, the United States and Japan dealt a diplomatic setback to the Soviet Union throughout the region...