Word: refugee
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IN FEBRUARY OF 1991 the United States decided to send troops to the Persian Gulf to prevent Iraqi aggression against Kuwait. In February of 1992 the United States decided to deny asylum to thousands of Haitians seeking refuge from harassment and violence.
Ingraham evaded players and coaches who pursuedhim across the Charles River, where he apparentlysought refuge in the underground garage of theCharles Hotel. Harvard and Cambridge policecontinued the search. But were unable to locateIngraham.
...ADMINISTRATION advertises its moral bankruptcy in its current brief before the Supreme Court, which will decide the fate of many of the refugees this week. Bush's Solicitor General, Kenneth Starr, argues in the brief that challenges to repatriation from human rights advocates and religious organizations represent an "unprecedented assault" on executive power. Executive privilege is the last refuge of scoundrels--just ask Richard Nixon or Ollie North. The appeal to legality before morality, however, fits nicely with the refugee/migrant distinction. It clears the conscience--and Guantanamo Bay, where the refugees are waiting--without doing any good for the Haitians...
Fighting started in a section of the camp between Vietnamese northerners and those from the south, who are normally held separately in the camps because of their longstanding political and cultural antagonisms. As police began arriving in force, 2,000 southern Vietnamese in an adjacent section tore down a 17...
Despite the persistent efforts of the Organization of American States to settle that very question, Haiti's political crisis appears no closer to resolution now than it did in the bloody days after the coup. Every attempt at a political compromise that might allow the populist hero Aristide to return...