Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time last Thursday when Al Gore was preparing to lead the U.S. delegation to Nelson Mandela's inauguration, the American most deserving of that trip lay in a Washington hospital. Randall Robinson, who spent years mobilizing the opposition to South Africa's oppressive regime, was in the midst of a hunger strike protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of sending Haitian refugees back to their misery...
...President's feckless Bosnia policy represents a sin of omission -- an unwillingness or inability to rally the world against Serbia's aggression -- then, argued Robinson, Clinton's Haiti stance reflected an even more reprehensible sin of commission. "To interdict people and then turn them back to be killed without granting them ((asylum hearings))," he said, "makes the President complicit in the killing of those people...
...Their claims for political asylum will be heard either on board those vessels or at third-country processing centers if the U.S. can negotiate their creation. Although the White House insists it has been debating a new course for some time, it's clear that the news coverage of Robinson's fast and the sight of members of Congress being arrested for protesting the President's policy in front of the White House without a permit had become a major embarrassment...
...Administration's tentative moves did not stop the three-week hunger strike by Randall Robinson, executive director of the lobbying group TransAfrica. Robinson was hospitalized for dehydration, but he vowed to continue until President Clinton agreed to give Haitian boat people hearings before forcibly repatriating them. By week's end Clinton was considering altering his repatriation policy...
Frustrated with the Administration's seeming indifference, 24 U.S. unions will call for a boycott of Haitian goods this week. At the Washington headquarters of TransAfrica, a group that lobbied successfully on behalf of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, activist Randall Robinson began the third week of a hunger strike to protest the U.S. policy of repatriating Haitian refugees. He saw nothing to please him about Clinton's Haiti stance. "The President is responsible for what constitutes a disaster in Haiti," he said. "The longer he waits, the more people...