Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration has fought for the deportation of the criminals and mental patients who were among the 125,000 "freedom flotilla" Cubans who came to the U.S. claiming political asylum. Under an agreement struck with Havana last December, the U.S. can now deport as many as 2,746 Cubans at a rate of 100 a month. "We are afraid that these men being returned to Cuba will be tortured," said Dale Schwartz, an Atlanta attorney who has been fighting to block the deportation of the prisoners. "As for whether it will be a bloodbath, we don't know. There...
...today, he would be a student, not a professor." So writes Arkady Shevchenko in the second and concluding excerpt from his memoirs, to appear next week in TIME. Shevchenko recounts how, finally fed up with the Soviet system despite his privileged place in it, he seeks and is promised asylum in the U.S.--but only after he agrees to become "a reluctant spy." For the next 2 1/2 years he lives in constant fear of discovery by the KGB and in constant guilt about the family he might have to leave behind. In 1978 he finally comes in from...
...last week, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini charged that "a terrorist multinational has already been formed in France capable of striking throughout Europe." Spadolini lashed out against the French government for sheltering terrorists "in the name of an anachronistic and self-destructive concept of the right of asylum." According to unofficial sources in Rome, at least 270 suspected or convicted Italian terrorists are being granted haven in France...
...little as $100. "In the best month, we got $600,000 from the gringos," recalls a Pastora aide. "Now, we get nothing. If one of us manages to scrape together $5,000, we buy rice and maybe 20,000 rounds of ammunition." Last month Pastora sought temporary asylum for himself and 700 of his followers in Costa Rica, but the authorities refused...
Linda Ronstadt: Lush Life (Asylum). Also starring Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. This is a sequel to last year's surprising smash, What's New, in which Ronstadt, her arranger-conductor and his orchestra proved that anything old could be renewed again, probably-given this kind of talent-in perpetuity. Lush Life is rather more playful and relaxed than its predecessor, as if the singer felt vindicated by her decision to refurbish some of pop's sturdiest standards. There is a kittenish sexuality singeing the edges of some of the twelve songs here; Mean to Me sounds...