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Nothing much happens. Charles' only friend Sam loses his job as a jacket salesman and moves in. His mother, alternately in a silver lame dress, bathtub, or asylum, has a bad habit of attempting suicide. Susan, the fresh-faced younger sister, "always appears to be happy and normal. She must know something," he muses. Reminders of the Sixties lie sprinkled about: Janis Joplin on the car radio, references to Woodstock--according to Susan, "Just a bunch of people walking around in the mud looking for a place to pee." But these bits of nostalgia are carefully controlled, contributing...
Meanwhile, the exodus of Poles continues. American officials confirmed last week that Andrzej Treumann, the highest ranking Polish banker in the U.S., asked for political asylum during the summer. As North American representative for Poland's Bank Handlowy, Treumann helped negotiate the rescheduling of Warsaw's $27 billion debt to the West...
...soldiers seemed to handle White roughly. When the North Koreans twice refused a request from White's commander for a face-to-face meeting with the G.I., it seemed possible that he was not, as the Communists claimed, under their "warm protection" after having "requested political asylum." Late last week, however, the Army concluded officially that White, 20, had shot open the guard-post lock. If, in fact, he walked across the DMZ voluntarily, it would mark the first defection by a U.S. soldier in Korea in 17 years, and the fifth since the Korean War ended...
Paris has thus become the Continent's undisputed center of terrorism for a variety of reasons. Traditionally, the country has been known as a land of asylum. It has favored an open visa system, a loose border policy and lax airport checks. Mitterrand has adopted a less stringent policy toward terrorists than his conservative predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
Given last week's vicious attack and the recent increase in terrorist incidents, the Mitterrand government has begun to reconsider its lenient policies. Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior, has called for a redefinition of the right to political asylum, and the French Cabinet is scheduled to produce a report this week on improving internal security. It will not appear a moment too soon for Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Says he: "Paris has become a hunting ground...