hope this sets the record straight.

John E. Rankin 3rd
Executive Director
Institute for Research in
English Acquisition and Development
Washington, D.C.

To the Editor:

You recently reported on a Presidential panel's response to the
issue of "war orphans'' created by the deployment of single parents in
the military ("Panel Urges Pentagon To Restrict Roles for Parents,''
Dec. 2, 1992). The panel had several suggestions, all of them in my
view detrimental to military readiness.

My answer to this concern, published in Navy Times on July 15, 1991,
was to establish residences for military dependents at various bases
around the country. These residences would serve a dual purpose. First,
of course, they would be a safe haven for dependents during a period of
mobilization. Secondly, they could serve as temporary residences for
dependents facing a transfer near the end of a school year, or for
thosehis NTA,

conceded his removability as charged, and, through counsel, filed an amended application for asylum

and withholding of removal based on his Palestinian ethnicity and political opinion, as well as for

protection under the CAT.

       On September 13, 2007, an IJ conducted a hearing on the merits of Ayyad’s claims for relief.

Ayyad asserted that before he came to the United States, Israeli authorities had persecuted him

because of his Palestinian ethnicity, and, if forced to return, he would encounter persecution from

both Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials, as well as Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic

organization.1




       1
         Ayyad testified to the following events: In 1987, Ayyad participated in the First Intifada,
a Palestinian uprising which