61.   Many Haitians who took to the seas in rickety boats during army rule said they were fleeing political persecution.

62.   Many said they had come to Indonesia more than two years ago and had been officially classified as refugees who had fled political persecution in their homelands.

63.   Most of those still on Palawan were judged to have left Vietnam to seek better economic opportunities abroad, not to flee persecution, and are to be repatriated.

64.   Refugee advocates and Jewish leaders fear that Jews fleeing persecution abroad could be denied refugee protection in Canada because of a recent Federal Court ruling.

65.   Representatives of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees hope to determine whether they were fleeing persecution in Vietnam.

66.   Schengen adherents are obliged to send back refugees not fleeing persecution but only seeking a better economic life in Europe.

67.   The Cayman government has decided to grant asylum to a small, as-yet-undetermined number of Cubans who fled political persecution, Ebanks said.

68.   The colony of Maryland was founded by English Catholics fleeing persecution.

69.   The banks have faced a storm of criticism in recent months for supposedly dragging their feet over returning money deposited by people fleeing Nazi persecution.

70.   The government says they are illegal migrants, economic refugees who were not fleeing political persecution.