Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent a rumble through the two most powerful nations on earth. His Soviet emigre parents had decided to return to the U.S.S.R. after living six months in Chicago. Walter stubbornly said he wouldn't go, and suddenly he was the littlest defector in international headlines. Washington granted him asylum. His parents, backed by the Soviet Union, went to court in the U.S., arguing that their parental rights had been violated. Various judges ruled various ways. Meanwhile, Walter did his part and kept on growing. Last week he turned 18, and the young man, who has been living in Chicago with...
...time as a Soviet mole, he could have protected East German spies and endangered the cover of West German ones. A week after Tiedge's flight, Martin Winkler, a Buenos Aires-based East German diplomat who was probably a double agent, came in from the cold and sought asylum in West Germany...
When Sarah, Macon Leary's wife of twenty years, runs out of the house leaving her wedding rings in the soapdish, Macon's first instinct is to return to the childhood nest, the domestic asylum where his three sisters, all doomed for spinsterhood, still live. The tragedy which initiates their estrangement--the freak murder of the Leary's twelve year-old son, Ethan, that occurs while he is away at camp--lays bare the stasis their marriage has reached. When Sarah openly seeks comfort in her grief, Macon's only solace is the reminder that he, with his usual caution...
...wishful thinking. Last Friday at 10:25 a.m., under the heading of the official East German news agency A.D.N., the answer to the spy catcher's whereabouts rattled out on newspaper- office teletypes: "Hans Joachim Tiedge has crossed to the German Democratic Republic and asked for asylum...
...timing of the deportation hearing was "just a twist of fate," insisted Perry Rivkind, the INS district director in Miami. He rejected any suggestion that politics influenced his decision to review the case. Chamorro, who has been denied political asylum by the U.S., claims that he has a U.S. entry visa valid through 1987. He vowed to fight any attempt to deport...