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  • A veteran relief worker who'd helped impoverished refugees in Haiti, Thailand and Morocco, Klink surfaced earlier this year as George W. Bush's choice to head the State Department's influential Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.

    A Pro-Life Foreign Policy 2007

  • As necessary, funds will also support requirements associated with the U.S. program to provide refuge in the United States for up to 20,000 Kosovar refugees, and for administrative expenses of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.

    Presidential Determination On Kosovar Refugees Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1999

  • Meanwhile, the airlift of up to 100,000 Rwandan refugees from the jungles of Zaire to their homeland will begin late this week, a spokesman for the U.N. Higher Commissioner for Refugees said

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Refugees from the Middle and Far East also seek asylum in Egypt.

    Global Voices in English » Egypt: Cairo Refugee Film Festival 2009

  • Refugees from a city that should have been abandoned years ago when we first realized what was happening to it (slowly sinking below the surface of the sea and there is nothing we can do about it!).

    Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Commissioner for Refugees is a bridge linking the world community conceived as a community of states and the world community conceived as a community of men and women.

    The Nobel Peace Prize 1981 - Presentation Speech 1981

  • The Cowboys were sometimes called Refugees, in consequence of their having taken refuge under the protection of the crown.] men, and to cover our retreat from being cut off by the way of King's Bridge. "

    The Spy James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Those who did not come over to this opinion, either left us, & were called Refugees, or staid with us under the name of tories; & some, preferring profit to principle took side with us and floated with the general tide.

    Miscellany 1784

  • The Vatican on Tuesday issued the pope's message for the church's World Day for Migrants and Refugees, which is celebrated Jan. 16.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The Vatican on Tuesday issued the pope's message for the church's World Day for Migrants and Refugees, which is celebrated Jan. 16.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

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