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...Catholic Conference. Yet the children's advocates report that even in cases where they have located U.S. relatives, the State Department has refused to grant them entry. Helene Charles, a 36-year-old Haitian living in Fort Lauderdale, says she has been trying for months to obtain a visa for her 14-year-old son Kissene. She left him behind in Haiti with her mother, but she became ill and could no longer care for him. Kissene got on a raft with some friends, who got word to his mother that he was at Guantanamo...
...Clinton Administration today officially acknowledged that it will grant the president of Taiwan a visa allowing the Cornell University alumnus to appear at his alma mater. President Lee Teng-hui, who has been invited to address an alumni reunion at Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y. campus, in June, would be the first leader of Taiwan to visit the U.S. since 1979, when Washington recognized Beijing as the sole government of China. (China regards Taiwan, the seat of the Nationalist Chinese who fled the communist takeover of the Chinese mainland in 1949, as a renegade province.) The State Department has been loath...
...Capitol Hill, Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde said he will toughen the Clinton administration's anti-terrorism bill to prevent members of terrorist organizations from entering the country. Clinton's proposed legislation would make terrorist acts within the U. S. a federal offense. Hyde's bill would also toughen visa and asylum procedures. He said the bill was so urgent his committee would try to send it to the full House as soon as possible. Rep. Charles Schumer, the chief sponsor of Clinton's bill, expects that "this bill will move like lightning through Congress...
...know, there have been a lot of partnerships in the industry, [such as] Microsoft and Visa," he said. "I believe our work with First Union is more extensive and is a working model while the others are just signed partnerships...
...Even so, Alarcon said passage of a pending Helms bill -- a measure to punish foreigners doing business with Cuba -- could unleash "huge waves of rafters." He also attacked the Helms proposal as unrealistic, arguing that under the proposed law, even Britain's Queen Elizabeth would be denied a U.S. visa, since the United Kingdom has invested in a Cuban venture...