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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doors are closing. Everywhere barriers are going up to keep refugees out, largely by challenging whether they are legitimate refugees. The 1951 U.N. Geneva Convention on Refugees defines a refugee as any uprooted person who has "a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion." Western nations claim that much of the deluge crossing their borders consists of people who are fleeing poverty rather than persecution. Thus the issue of accepting the displaced has become intertwined with policy concerns about controlling immigration. "We are not an immigration country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees Closing the Doors | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...RELIGION: Africa boasts the world's largest church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 1 | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...print science fiction. Seven Stars (58 JFK St.) and Sky Light Books (111 Mt. Auburn St.) have new age books and crystals. Both of them also offer classes and workshops in new age philosophy. And The Thomas More Bookshop (1352 Mass. Ave.) carries books in philosophy and religion...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: No Bookstore Is the Same | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...Religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Vol. 133 No. 25 JUNE 19, 1989 | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...RELIGION: The new Methodist hymnal scores sexism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents PageVol. 133 No. 24 JUNE 12, 1989 | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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