Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article critical of Captain Alfredo Astiz, the officer who surrendered the Argentine garrison on South Georgia to the British and who was accused of torture and murder after infiltrating the human rights movement during the "dirty war" in 1977. La Semana's editor, Jorge Fontevecchia, successfully sought asylum in Venezuela last week. Shortly thereafter, however, a federal court judge ruled that there was nothing offensive in the article and ordered the junta to free all 20,000 seized copies of the magazine for distribution...
KLAUS BARBIE almost got away with genocide. With the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Barbie, the notorious Gestapo chief of Lyon in occupied France, mysteriously slipped through an international dragnet and found asylum in South America, leaving behind the bodies of thousands of his victims. For thirty-two years he evaded Nazi hunters and scoffed at extradition attempts and death sentences passed in absentia by the French courts of justice. Barbie had played the war crime game...
Nothing much happens. Charles' only friend Sam loses his job as a jacket salesman and moves in. His mother, alternately in a silver lame dress, bathtub, or asylum, has a bad habit of attempting suicide. Susan, the fresh-faced younger sister, "always appears to be happy and normal. She must know something," he muses. Reminders of the Sixties lie sprinkled about: Janis Joplin on the car radio, references to Woodstock--according to Susan, "Just a bunch of people walking around in the mud looking for a place to pee." But these bits of nostalgia are carefully controlled, contributing...
Meanwhile, the exodus of Poles continues. American officials confirmed last week that Andrzej Treumann, the highest ranking Polish banker in the U.S., asked for political asylum during the summer. As North American representative for Poland's Bank Handlowy, Treumann helped negotiate the rescheduling of Warsaw's $27 billion debt to the West...
...soldiers seemed to handle White roughly. When the North Koreans twice refused a request from White's commander for a face-to-face meeting with the G.I., it seemed possible that he was not, as the Communists claimed, under their "warm protection" after having "requested political asylum." Late last week, however, the Army concluded officially that White, 20, had shot open the guard-post lock. If, in fact, he walked across the DMZ voluntarily, it would mark the first defection by a U.S. soldier in Korea in 17 years, and the fifth since the Korean War ended...