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...return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between a "clear probability" and "well-founded fear...
...sweeping language to rule that Arline's rights had been violated. Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan held that Congress had passed the law "to ensure that handicapped individuals are not denied jobs or other benefits because of the prejudiced attitudes or the ignorance of others." In a dissent that was joined by Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice William Rehnquist said neither the language of the law nor the record of congressional discussion preceding its passage provided evidence that contagiousness was intended to fall within its definition of handicap. The majority of the Justices were convinced, however, that in amendments...
...Korea in recent months, and more often than not it has been uttered by the country's students, especially the radical hard-liners. On every side, demands are growing that President Chun Doo Hwan reform a regime that, while not nearly as repressive as Communist North Korea's, stifles dissent and tortures and imprisons political opponents. In frequent demonstrations, university students have demanded an end to dictatorship when Chun, a former general who seized power in 1980, fulfills a pledge to step down next February. The students' aim is nothing less than to bring what they consider democracy...
...very repressiveness of the Chun government gives radicals a rich soil to thrive in. South Korean students fill a political void that does not exist in some other East Asian countries. Japan, for example, permits dissent and has a vocal opposition that includes the Communist Party, which holds 27 seats in the national parliament, or Diet. But Koreans have no such democratic outlets. Kim Dae Jung, the country's most famous dissident, is barred from all political activity, and has been under frequent house arrest since returning from U.S. exile in 1985. Even left-wing books and pamphlets are officially...
...student leader at Seoul National University. "But we do not know how the government will react to these new tactics. They may be even more brutal, and then things will escalate once again. I can't tell how it will develop." Given South Korea's tradition of student dissent, the protesters seem likely to remain in the streets...