Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIKELIHOOD of bringing to justice American war criminals--without whom there would be no Vietnamese refugees--is slight. But this need not mean that America should, out of guilt, and any and all Vietnamese asking for political asylum, including those who, under whatever circumstances, are guilty of atrocities...
...decision America confronts regarding Vietnamese war refugees must be seen as an issue of political asylum and not humanitarian aid. Forced repatriation of Vietnamese refugees is not the issue, and neither is the competence of the U.S. to act as a judicial body evaluating the merits of individual Vietnamese. The real problem is whether or not the U.S. will divert its humanitarian efforts away from what should be their real focus--the reconstruction of the land we ravaged and the people we tore apart--to the comforting of the defeated lieutenants who carried out our policies. That would only compound...
Though Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said last week that if Thieu wished asylum in the U.S. "he would of course be received," associates of the former President quoted Thieu as saying he was "very angry" with the American Government because it "did not honor its commitment to South Viet Nam." The South Vietnamese embassy in London confirmed that Thieu's twelve-year-old son is in school in England, adding to speculation that the rest of the family might move there. Another possibility is Switzerland, where Thieu is rumored to own a villa. There were reports that...
...names like David Geffen (founder of Asylum Records) and Nat Weiss (The Beatles' American manager) praised and encouraged him, but told him his songs weren't right for the tastes of the current pop market. "The real watershed occurred two years ago when a large publishing company made a substantial offer, the contingency being that I break up with McNamee," he says. "They felt his lyrics were too intellectual for the general pop audience, and specified that I work with their house hacks...
...state mental hospital in Salem, Ore. Nicholson has just completed filming One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a movie based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel and co-produced by The Streets of San Francisco Star Michael Douglas. The film stars Nicholson as an asylum inmate ("crazy as a fox") and features former Oregon Governor Tom McCall, Jazz Singer Seatman Crothers and some of the hospital's 600 inmates in its cast. Nicholson, who anticipated that his assignment would be "a fairly depressing and intense experience," found that both actors and inmates gained from their contact...