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...Texas Border Patrol sector, arrested Salvadorans have doubled over the past year, from 266 to 542. One of them, José, 25, is trying to raise his $3,500 bond. "I can't go back to El Salvador," he says. "I'd be shot." Like Afghan and Haitian refugees, Salvadorans present thorny problems for the INS because they come requesting asylum. To get it, they must show that they have been or are likely to be persecuted for political, religious or racial reasons...
...Miami Herald for editorials opposing detention of Haitian refugees...
Many of the building's tenants are Haitian or Hispanic who speak little English, and several city councilor expressed concern that possible racial discrimination or lack of communication were the causes of the evictions...
...question in AIDS is who will be affected next. So far, the disease has mostly stricken homosexual men (72% of all cases), intravenous drug abusers (17%), Haitian immigrants (4%) and hemophiliacs (1%). But a majority of the experts believe that what was once known as the "gay plague" will enter the general population. Because of their frequent contact with AIDS patients and blood, "hospital workers will be next," predicts Dr. Roger Enlow, a leading AIDS researcher. As head of New York City's brand-new office of gay and lesbian health concerns, Enlow monitors new cases of AIDS...
...Montt, an eccentric born-again Protestant whose regime is accused of anti-Catholic bias as well as the murder of a large number of Indian civilians. After a day trip to Honduras, the Pope will fly from Guatemala to Haiti, making a six-hour stop in Belize. In the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, he will open the quadrennial assembly of the Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM...