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...Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Caribbean. "We have learned from the history of the Jewish boats which wandered the seven seas looking for a haven and which were turned away," declared Menachem Begin last week. His first act as Israel's new Premier was to offer asylum and opportunities for resettlement to the 66 Vietnamese. Taiwan then allowed the group to land and go to Sung Shan International Airport for a flight to Israel...
Goon Squads. There was an amoeboid explosion of rumor after 13 Ugandan military officers and civil servants sought asylum in Kenya, claiming that their lives were threatened by Amin's security forces. Soon reports had "hundreds" of innocent Ugandan refugees fleeing the murderous wrath of Big Daddy's goon squads-a not uncommon occurrence in Uganda. Nairobi's Daily-Nation reported that Amin was being treated for his wounds in "a friendly country, probably Libya...
...unit boss, Wright had to deal with a fiery newcomer who, presumably acting on orders from above, denounced a veteran Communist and almost broke up the organization. Suddenly the intruder disappeared, and Wright learned that he had been returned to the mental asylum from which he had escaped. "What kind of club did we run," thought...
...soldier who liberates the patients in a country nursing home and joins them in a jolly romp around about the streets of a small town, it is the perfect parable of Cambridge life. Free and freaky--but within bounds, harmless and unsubversive. The kooks return to the asylum at the end; the students and shag-hairdoed hippies go from the bars and cafes home to their nice, warm, high-rent beds. Alan Bates has lots of mischevious fun as the soldier, and deBroca's direction is free-wheeling; the film tickles, like a feather. And just think; by concentrating hard...
Around 1939 Ho and the two children-the daughter was still tiny-were sent by the Party to Moscow. Depressed in her isolation, she resumed beating her children mercilessly. Eventually she gave up trying to mother them at all. Others took custody and she was committed to an asylum. In the late 1940's (when Stalin was becoming increasingly disenchanted with Mao) she was sent back to Shanghai. Aged now, she still lives there in a mental institution. Periodically she is given shock treatments...