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...people will probably be interviewed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, already burdened with a backlog of 400,000 refugee applications. Immigration officials in Haiti came under fire last August when one of the INS's own internal monitors publicized the ineptitude and anti- asylum bias he observed in Port-au-Prince. He was sacked but later reinstated...
...months later, German and Saudi officials detained a German-registered ship, the Asian Senator, as it steamed past a Saudi port en route to Beirut. On board, they seized two containers of Chinese-produced ammonium perchlorate, an essential ingredient for solid-fuel rockets and ballistic missiles. Though the ostensible destination was Lebanon, U.N. monitors and U.S. officials confirmed that the real end user was Iraq's long-range missile program...
...returning in the wake of a U.S. invasion, Aristide would surely be perceived as an American puppet by many Haitians. At the same time, he continues to stir antipathy at the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince. Earlier this month officials leaked a confidential cable that had been sent to Washington charging that Aristide and his supporters "manipulate or even fabricate human-rights abuses as a propaganda tool." The deposed President's followers called for the ouster of several U.S. embassy diplomats -- hardly auspicious for the partnership. Even if Aristide's return could be orchestrated smoothly, he would encounter...
...Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez, admitted he was less than candid with a Coast Guard investigator immediately after his ship ran aground in 1989 and spilled 11 million gal. of oil. Hazelwood testified that instead of just one beer, he had had three vodka drinks before leaving port, and that Exxon had known about his drinking problem...
Soldiers from Yemen's conservative North were reported to be bogged down along the former border between North and South Yemen 60 miles from the strategic southern port of Aden, as the formerly Marxist South claimed to have repulsed the latest attack in the civil war that broke out May 5. A Scud-missile attack launched by Southern forces killed two dozen people in the capital of San'a. Widely varying reports of the war's casualties range from a few hundred to 12,000 killed or wounded...