Word: asylums
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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...
...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...
...Even as the company celebrates its latest crop of dance graduates, it is torn by internal dissension and wobbling in its artistic course. Its troubles broke out into the open last summer, as the company began a U.S. tour. One of its most forceful stars, Alexander Godunov, asked for asylum in New York City. Three weeks later, in Los Angeles, two of its lesser known principals, Leonid and Valentina Kozlov, bolted as well...
...directive exempts three groups from the policy: Iranians with immediate relatives in the U.S., applications for political asylum and those who can present humanitarian (read medical) reasons. Since April, approximately 4000 students have left the U.S., many without completing their studies, as a result of the policy, and 10,000 more of the 70,000 Iranian students in the U.S. may be required to leave by next fall. About a quarter of all Iranian students hold dated visas, the kind that expire each year (usually around May 31), and must be renewed by the INS. The remainder hold "duration...