Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands besiege the Peruvian embassy demanding asylum...
...most dramatic protests against the austerities and repression of life in Cuba in years. Last week more than 7,000 men, women and children poured through the gates and clambered over the walls of the Peruvian embassy on Havana's spacious Avenida Quinta, demanding asylum. Some accounts put the figure as high as 10,800. There they remained through a week of tension and confusion as Latin American diplomats agonized over what to do with them...
...headlong rush for freedom was touched off after six asylum-seeking Cubans in a bus rammed through the embassy gate; in the fracas, a policeman was killed. Cuban authorities subsequently announced that they were withdrawing their guards from the embassy. Havana has had an ongoing dispute with Peru and other Latin American countries over their policy of granting political asylum to gatecrashing Cubans who manage to gain entrance to their embassies. There is some suspicion that in withdrawing guards from the Peruvian compound officials knew what would happen: thousands of unhappy Cubans from every walk of life began streaming into...
...treaty with Iran and its constitution forbids sending any foreign national to a country that has the death penalty. Panamanian Ministry of Justice officials said they are prepared to listen to Vasquez's arguments, but it seemed unlikely that President Aristides Royo would reverse his decision to grant asylum to the Shah for as long as he wants...
...million to $10 million; they also stopped insisting on worldwide dissemination of their revolutionary manifesto. For its part, the government promised a kind of prearranged amnesty for the entrenched terrorists by offering them safe passage out of the country and a plane to fly them to countries of asylum. At week's end Fidel Castro offered Cuba as a haven...