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...weakening market means that oilmen will be less willing to invest the millions, and sometimes even billions, of dollars needed to explore for new sources of crude. That, in turn, could lead to a renewed supply squeeze in two or three years. Energy Analyst Constantine Fliakos, of the Merrill Lynch investment brokerage firm, warns: "There is really no doubt that demand eventually will bounce back; the question is simply when...
...such is the law, according to Paula Lynch (another official in the Bureau of Refugees Affairs); and under it each individual in Qul's tribe wanting to come to the United States must show up in Islamabad and file a formal application...
...tribe would be considered along with several thousand other people applying for refugee status from Afghanistan and Iraq. From October 1980, to September 1981, more than 3000 refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq--the majority from Afghanistan--were admitted to the United States. The Bureau of Refugee Affairs, Lynch says, has been using the definition of refugee set by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which was incorporated into the Refugee Act approved by Congress...
...return. Every year the president and the Congress agree on ceilings for the number of refugees that can be admitted from any one part of the world. In 1982, for example, the ceilings limit entries from the entire region termed the Near East to 5000 people. Most of them, Lynch says, will be Afghan refugees...
...Kirghiz, regardless of their suffering at the hands of the Russians, maintain no ties with the United States other than their involvement with Dupree, Jones, and Nassif Shahrani--an anthropologist at UCLA who has done field work with the Kirghiz in Afghanistan. As a result, Lynch says, Qul and his tribe do not stand a chance on earth of qualifying for the U.S. refugee program...