Word: asylum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what Americans favor. Two-thirds of those polled agreed that permitting the Shah to enter the U.S. for medical treatment was the right thing to do. Only 25% were opposed. But in about the same numbers-61 % to 26%-voters rejected the idea of offering the Shah permanent asylum. Although the front-running G.O.P. presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, urged that the Shah should be given asylum, Republicans (52%) as well as Democrats (64%) opposed that course. What if turning over the Shah to the Iranians were the only way to free the hostages? Some 62% said the deposed monarch should...
Warren Zevon (Asylum, 1976). If a Black Mask writer studied Stravinsky, turned to rock and set down his hard-boiled romances on a piano played by shooting the keys with a .44 Magnum, he'd sound a little like Warren Zevon. Just a little. Rock of rare recklessness and unguarded sentiment...