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Many refugees, however, lack compelling claims to asylum. Western governments maintain that most of the people flooding out of such places as Nicaragua, Viet Nam and Eastern Europe may be tired, hungry and poor but are not victims of persecution. A host of measures aimed at deterring refugees have been introduced. The most obvious -- and no doubt the cruelest -- is deportation. That has been the recent fate of thousands of Central Americans, largely Nicaraguan citizens, who tried to enter the U.S. Washington's repelling measure has had the intended effect: whereas asylum applications in Texas ran at a rate...
...Quayle visited four Central American countries last week, promoted his usual hard line against Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega, and admonished right-wingers in El Salvador to abjure human- rights abuses. That his efforts received routine news coverage delighted his staff...
While never deviating from basic Bush policy in public, Quayle places himself a few degrees to the President's right, acting the conservative enforcer. It was Quayle who talked about the Soviets' "hatred of God." While in Central America, he inveighed against the "axis" of dictatorships in Panama, Nicaragua and Cuba, and posed with a grenade launcher that he said the Sandinistas had shipped to Marxist rebels in El Salvador...
...fights her battles on the front pages, and occasionally face to face, with men she believes have betrayed Nicaragua. In the summer of 1987, Ortega signed a Central American peace plan proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. Among other things, the plan required each of the five participating countries to show that it had a free press. Ortega dispatched an emissary to tell Chamorro that La Prensa, then still banned, could reopen -- subject to government censorship. "I told him I wasn't interested," says Dona Violeta. "He became very nervous and explained to me that if La Prensa...
PROFILE: The battling grande dame of Nicaragua...