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Last week eleven Krome Avenue North residents were herded through a quick immigration hearing in Miami, then put on a jet back to Port-au-Prince. They were the first to be sent home under a new U.S. policy of deporting all Haitians who have arrived illegally since mid-May. (Last year more than 20,000 entered the U.S. legitimately.) Seventy-six more Haitians have been found similarly unacceptable and ordered to leave, but await judicial review of their cases, which will begin this week. If the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way-as a Cabinet task force will...
...talks, fittingly, were held at Sharm el Sheikh (renamed Ofira by the Israelis), the port city near the southern tip of the last stretch of the Sinai that is due to revert to Egyptian sovereignty next April. Each leader brought along an entourage: Begin's included Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon; Sadat was aided by Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan...
...Jordanians and the Iraqis to end the support that these two nations have been giving the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood, which is seeking to overthrow Assad's regime. One possible indication of the growing importance of the Saudis in working out an agreement is that Habib's first port of call will be the capital city of Riyadh...
...many others are unofficially recognized by employers. Disruptive labor disputes now occur at a rate of two or three times a week. In the final days of the anniversary celebration, black unions demonstrated their strength by calling simultaneous walkouts at the Ford and General Motors assembly plants in Port Elizabeth. The cost in lost production: $2 million...
Life in all parts of beloved Bangladesh has returned to normal," Dacca's state radio announced triumphantly last week. For 48 hours Bangladesh had teetered toward civil war, following a coup attempt in the southeastern port of Chittagong in which President Ziaur Rahman, 45, was gunned down by an assault force of mutinous troops. Major General Abul Manzur, 40, who led the putsch against his longtime rival, had hoped for help from the military across the country. Instead, army units stormed the rebellious military garrison in Chittagong. While trying to flee to Burma, Manzur was captured and summarily shot...