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Thousands besiege the Peruvian embassy demanding asylum...
...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...
Since 1975, when Communist regimes took power in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, more than a million Indochinese have fled those countries seeking asylum in neighboring countries, according to a State Department news release distributed at the speech...
Palmieri said although these numbers are impressive, they still are not proportionate to the large number of refugees in first-asylum countries, and the masses still arriving...