Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Budding Castro. U Nu has been trying to get his own campaign going in Burma since mid-1969, when he staged a number of phony fainting spells and got Ne Win to let him seek "medical treatment" abroad. Last November he alighted in Thailand, where he was granted political asylum. He moved into a Florida-style villa in one of Bangkok's heavily American suburbs and started to style himself as a budding Castro. For many months, as he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud last week, he and his group of aging Burmese exiles lived "from hand to mouth...
...ironic that the word "home" has another meaning; a gray institution where we store the old, the sick, and the insane, waiting for them to die. We call some of these homes "asylums," and the people inside them "madmen." When occasionally, as in Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade, we are forced to enter an asylum, we see lunatics prancing, laughing, and shrieking. Frightened, we can still leave reassured, thinking, "So that's what a madman is like. Well, no one I know is quite like that. Thank...
David Storey's Home is an asylum, and his characters are madmen. But his home is far closer to ours, and its inhabitants hardly seem madder than the people around us. When Harry, played by John Gielgud, walks onto an almost bare stage, neatly folds his gloves and newspaper onto a table, and lowers himself into a frame chair, he could be anywhere. At a garden party, or perhaps a seaside resort. And Jack (Ralph Richardson), moving painfully to the table, smiling slightly, asking if he may sit down-is that what a lunatic looks like? Not until Jack asks...
Moscow's determination to punish the hijackers undoubtedly increased last week, when a second Aeroflot craft, a small passenger plane, was successfully diverted to Turkey by two students. The two asked for political asylum, claiming that they want to go to the U.S. American officials, determined to avoid a double standard for hijackers, are not likely to grant that wish, unless the students are first tried in Turkish courts. In any case, their deed could complicate the fate of the four military officers...
...Soviets were understandably incensed by Turkey's handling of the case. After releasing the plane, Ankara granted political asylum to the Bransizkases. Moreover, despite attempts of the Trebizond prosecutor to bring the pair to trial on charges of murder, the courts quickly freed them. In an age of rising air piracy, Turkey's astonishing action seemed to sanction a double standard for "good" and "bad" hijackers (TIME, Sept. 28)-though it is difficult to see how the Bransizkases could be accorded much sympathy, whatever their political problems at home. Moscow is not likely to let the Turks forget...