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...Congressman John Joseph Moakley of Massachusetts, sponsor of legislation to prevent the deportation of Salvadorans and Nicaraguans, accused the Administration of "playing politics with people's lives" in helping Nicaraguans (reflecting U.S. aversion to the Sandinista regime) while ignoring ; Salvadorans (to avoid suggesting that they might have reason to flee from a government the U.S. supports). Said Moakley: "If El Salvador were under Communist leadership, they'd have the welcome wagons out waiting...
...retired Pakistani officer: "Our air force cannot scramble its F-16s every time Afghan warplanes head east." The Afghans have the option of relying more on terror bombing, or on cross-border shelling, which alone has caused several deaths in recent weeks and forced 14,000 Pakistanis to flee from the border area...
...year after I wrote that piece, I got to read a virtual rewrite of that essay, now entitled "They Flee from Me," in a Lampoon parody of the What. To add insult to injury, a good friend of mind unwittingly complimented me for writing the Lampoon's parody, saying it was the best piece I had ever written. One freshman girl even took the parody so seriously she called me up to complain about...
...decision last week, the court upheld the controversial 1984 Bail Reform Act, by which Congress authorized the "preventive detention" of some federal suspects. For many years federal judges were forbidden to deny bail in most cases, except when there was reason to believe that a defendant might flee before trial. The new law has permitted those judges to refuse bail to thousands of suspects, most of them accused of violent and drug-related crimes, who could be shown to pose a danger to the "safety of any other person and the community." In effect, the accused is presumed...
...Barbie eluded prosecution, not to say detection, for so long? For one thing, he had collaborated with the American Counter Intelligence Corps in postwar Europe, supplying information about Communist activities in Germany and Austria. The services of the CIC made it possible for him to flee to South America. (Most ironically, it was a young Jewish officer, 23-year-old Leo Hecht, who was ordered to provide him with his false travel documents.) For another, he had powerful friends throughout Europe. It is known that an international network existed after World War II to aid war criminals. No such escape...