Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot had been frustrated and went into hiding. Other insurgents in Tehran were supposed to attack the Central Committee of Islamic Militiamen simultaneously. Some were captured before firing a shot, while the rest fled-as did two air force officers who flew to Turkey in a helicopter and requested asylum...
...insurrection. It was not a plot. It is Khomeini himself who is pushing people to revolt." Bakhtiar, who has been an active leader of the anti-Khomeini forces among Iranian exiles in Europe, had no choice but to deny involvement. To do otherwise might jeopardize the political asylum that the French government gave him after he fled from revolutionary Iran last year. In London, however, an associate told the Financial Times that Bakhtiar had been involved in the coup attempt and that the plotting had gone on for nine months. Said the aide: "The plan was perfect. Everyone was there...
Tough new restrictions on political asylum...
...German gun in Italy and are awarded an alfresco luncheon by the women of the newly liberated town. They survive a German ambush and soon after help to deliver a French woman's baby in the tank they have captured. There is a weird battle in an insane asylum, and the death of a child who has survived years in a concentration camp and then dies when Marvin takes him on a picnic...
...week's end Popescu and his clan were awaiting word from the Austrian government on whether their request for political asylum would be granted...