Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dour Russian diplomats hustled their charge through Kennedy Airport, they were met by a determined contingent of U.S. State Department and immigration officials. Their friend, the Russians assured the Americans, did not want asylum and had chosen to return home; but, no, he could not confirm this personally. Merab Kurashvili, 36, an engineering teacher doing postgraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, stood nervously watching, his throat and wrists bandaged. Without an interview, the Americans replied, Kurashvili would not be permitted to board a waiting Aeroflot jet. The Soviets yielded-perhaps in part because the U.S., by coincidence...
...august honors, as the world quickly learned, were for JÓzsef Cardinal Mindszenty, now 79. After 15 years of cramped and tightly watched asylum in the U.S. embassy at Budapest, Mindszenty had reluctantly agreed to accept "perhaps the heaviest cross of my life" and leave his native Hungary. The war between the church and Communism had long since softened into an edgy coexistence, and the fierce old freedom fighter had become less a hero than an embarrassment...
...defector-so far unnamed-was a high official in Britain of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. He got in touch with British agents several weeks ago to seek asylum in Britain, and was swiftly granted it. His information conveyed, said the Foreign Office, full details of "the scale and nature of Soviet espionage in Britain." Those details included-startlingly enough-plans for the "infiltration of agents for the purpose of sabotage." The KGB man also brought along a Soviet plan for infiltrating the British navy, particularly a secret research establishment at Portland on England's south coast...
...notoriety as a superspy has always made General Reinhard Gehlen a controversial figure. As head of German military intelligence on the Eastern Front during World War II, Gehlen so infuriated Hitler with his precise predictions of Soviet victories that der Führer ordered him sent to an insane asylum. Instead, he fled to the Bavarian Alps, and later made a deal with the invading Americans: 50 cases of secret data on the Red Army in return for U.S. financial and political backing for what became Bonn's postwar espionage organization, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst). An obsessive antiCommunist, Gehlen helped...
...accused murderer, he was taken by Jeep to a military jail near Pisa. There, at the age of 60, he was kept like an animal in an outdoor cage, exposed to all weathers, for more than six months. He was sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Washington, D.C. During his ordeal, Pound fought off madness and suicide by writing some of his greatest verse...