Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around the country. But Clinton recognizes that no mere modifications of asylum rules, however humanely intended, can permanently stop the wave of immigrants to U.S. shores. It is much harder -- and much more essential -- to improve the basic economic and political conditions in Haiti that cause its citizens to flee...
What really matters to most Haitians is Aristide's return. Many of those who are building boats to flee say they will stay home if he comes back, as he urged them in a special Creole broadcast on Voice of America. "The people will not leave now," said a Haitian man in the slum of Cite Boston. "We are waiting for him -- for Aristide." While conceding that he was not the perfect President, Haitians like the priest in the town of Jeremite say "restoring Aristide to power is restoring the democratic process." The exiled President, however, has been less popular...
...other reason women don't flee is because, ironically, they are afraid for their life. Law-enforcement experts agree that running away greatly increases the danger a woman faces. Angered at the loss of power and control, violent men often try to track down their wives and threaten them, or their children, if they don't come home. James Cox III, an unemployed dishwasher in Jacksonville, Florida, was determined to find his ex-girlfriend, despite a court order to stay away from her. Two weeks ago, he forced her mother at gunpoint to tell him the location of the battered...
...effort to protest what they see as an immigration double standard. The Haitians watched angrily as 48 Cubans who hijacked an airliner out of Havana earlier this month were released almost overnight. Hundreds of black Haitians -- who risked a 600-mile sea voyage in rickety boats to flee an often cruel military rule -- have been detained for months while their asylum claims are reviewed...
...reception was no friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...