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Stopping in Cyprus on his way home to England, a Palestinian traveler fell into conversation with the distraught Ahmed and alerted the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in London of Ahmed's plight. Ahmed was soon assured by UNHCR that he would receive assistance in Cairo, so he flew back to Egypt. But when the Egyptians tried to send him to Somalia, Ahmed kicked and screamed. The Somalian Ambassador was called in, and he acknowledged that Ahmed would be imprisoned if he landed in Somalia. So the Ethiopian was returned to Cyprus...
...more than 700 boat people were sent to Tai A Chau. Each day the Hong Kong government dispatches a medical team to the island and provides drinking water, canned food and biscuits. Beyond that, the colony's administration is at a loss for a way to ease the refugees' plight...
...Israel's hard-line leaders are reluctant to criticize the behavior of their fellow nationalists across the "green line." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir concedes that "no one is entitled to take the law into his own hands" but reserves his sympathy for the settlers' plight. Foreign Minister Moshe Arens praises West Bank Jews as the "frontline obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state." Still, the government hopes to cool off the settlers with a series of tough new measures against Arab demonstrators. Last week Chief of Staff Dan Shomron requested an amendment that would allow him to deport Palestinians...
Eventually a legislator finds it easier to understand the plight of the constituent-friend who would be hurt by a bill cracking down on reckless savings and loan executives than the plight of a constituent he does not know -- Joe Sixpack faithfully depositing his weekly savings into a 5% passbook account. When friends of Wright and Coelho who were heading up failing S & Ls came under investigation for fraud, the Democratic leaders were not only willing to take their calls and visits but to stall legislation and a federal investigation that would have cracked down on these people...
...mainline plight might be understandable if all of U.S. Christendom were reeling under the shocks of secularism and the inroads of new, alien faiths. But that is not the case. During the past two decades, black Protestant groups have gained, Roman Catholic membership has grown a solid 16%, and the boom in the conservative evangelical churches (including Fundamentalists, Pentecostals and charismatics) has caused some to envision a religious revival...