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Diplomatic sources said yesterday three Latin American countries--Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama--have also offered the guerrillas political asylum...
...Kennedy International Airport; an elegant suite at Philadelphia's Barclay Hotel; a condominium in the Regency Towers, along the seashore in Ventnor, N.J. For flexibility, another sheik was created, Yasser Habib. He claimed that he might one day have to flee his home country and seek asylum in the U.S. That asylum could be provided if a member of Congress would introduce a private bill, granting him special status to bypass normal immigration procedures. The sheik would, of course, generously reward any legislator willing to sponsor such legislation. (In past years as many as 7,300 private immigration bills...
...Congressmen turned up at the FBI'S rented house on Washington's W Street, often with Criden at their side, to learn about the largesse of the second FBI sheik, Yasser Habib, the one who was hoping to find asylum in the U.S. Habib welcomed his visitors under lights so bright that the lawmakers squinted. These lights had been installed to facilitate the secret videotaping, but the sheik's aides explained that he kept them bright because he missed the blazing sun of his homeland. To each Congressman, the pitch was the same: the sheik feared trouble...
...what Americans favor. Two-thirds of those polled agreed that permitting the Shah to enter the U.S. for medical treatment was the right thing to do. Only 25% were opposed. But in about the same numbers-61 % to 26%-voters rejected the idea of offering the Shah permanent asylum. Although the front-running G.O.P. presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, urged that the Shah should be given asylum, Republicans (52%) as well as Democrats (64%) opposed that course. What if turning over the Shah to the Iranians were the only way to free the hostages? Some 62% said the deposed monarch should...
Warren Zevon (Asylum, 1976). If a Black Mask writer studied Stravinsky, turned to rock and set down his hard-boiled romances on a piano played by shooting the keys with a .44 Magnum, he'd sound a little like Warren Zevon. Just a little. Rock of rare recklessness and unguarded sentiment...