Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Protecting diplomats completely is impossible, but host countries are boosting guards and surveillance. In Washington, the White House police force is expanding from 250 to 850 to keep watch over Embassy Row as well as the White House. Argentina has proposed a hemispheric pact that would deny political asylum to any prisoners released under pressure from kidnapers. Mexico, however, insists that it will continue granting asylum to released prisoners on the grounds that this at least saves the lives of hostages...
...Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, who has an unholy craving for his sister (Susannah York). After causing no end of mischief-including crippling Susannah's marriage and shooting his left ear off with a shotgun-poor "Pink," as sis calls him, is packed off to a genteel asylum run by a kindly doctor named Maitland. Cyril Cusack, the fine Irish character actor, plays this role with a certain amount of bemused charm that makes the brother's plight slightly more believable and O'Toole's even more poignant...
...letting students run their own living arrangements: "Even the best of puppies needs to be housebroken." And "It's like letting the insane run-the asylum...
...distinguished war record, which won him an Order of Lenin, and the fact that he taught cybernetics at the Frunze Academy, the Russian equivalent of West Point, made him a particular embarrassment to Soviet authorities. They cashiered him from the army, and in 1964 confined him in a lunatic asylum for 14 months. Last May, he was arrested in Tashkent and, without trial, was sent for an indefinite period to another asylum as a "paranoid." Copies of Grigorenko's own notes on his treatment are now circulating from hand to hand in Moscow. Following are excerpts that describe...
...Eagle steamed into Cambodian territorial waters safe from the pursuing U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mellon, which had been ordered by Admiral John Hyland, commander of the Pacific Fleet, to observe her movements. Just before the coup d'état against Prince Norodom Sihanouk (see WORLD), Cambodia granted political asylum to McKay and Glatkowski. At week's end, the Eagle rode at anchor off Sihanoukville, still in Cambodian custody...