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When a Russian pilot flew a MiG-25 to northern Japan last month and asked for political asylum in the U.S., CIA Director George Bush hailed the defection as an "intelligence bonanza." According to euphoric Pentagon spokesmen, an examination of the plane and interrogation of the pilot would yield vital secrets about Soviet air-weapons technology. But U.S. experts who were dispatched to Japan for a three-week study of the aircraft have come to a different and surprising conclusion: the much-touted superplane brought to the West by Soviet Air Force 1st Lieut. Viktor Belenko is, in many respects...
...planes. Thus a study of the MIG-25's complex radar, engines and missile system could provide U.S. experts with new insights about the current state of Soviet aeronautical and electronic technology. Delighted by Belenko's gift, the White House immediately announced its willingness to grant political asylum to the Soviet lieutenant. At week's end he arrived in Los Angeles aboard a commercial airliner from Tokyo en route to a secret destination, where he will be questioned by U.S. military and intelligence officers. Heading in the opposite direction, a team of Air Force experts left...
Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down the Wind (Asylum). For a sweet country rocker, Linda sings a lot of sad songs. Now and then she tips her hat to mainstream rock 'n' roll- That'll Be the Day and a razzle-dazzle version of Heat Wave-but mostly Ronstadt has built her career singing about losers. Her new LP continues in the same vein. "Save me/ Free me/ From my heart this time," she implores in a voice edged with tears. The gentle reggae tune Rivers of Babylon blows a few of the clouds away, but nowhere does Ronstadt...
...chess tournament in Amsterdam was over, and Russian Grandmaster Victor Korchnoi, 45, ranked second only to World Champion Anatoli Karpov, had finished in a tie for first place. But Korchnoi had a private end game to complete: he defected and sought asylum. Tass, the Soviet news agency, quickly counterattacked, accusing Korchnoi of being "obsessed with vanity." In fact, Korchnoi has been in dutch with Soviet chess officials more or less constantly since 1974, when he lost in a semifinal world championship match to Karpov and then complained publicly that his fellow grandmaster had a "poor chess arsenal." But Korchnoi...
...established with the founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751, the New York in 1771 and the Massachusetts General in 1811, moving the care of the sick poor and the teaching of medical students out of the almshouses. With the founding of the first mental hospital, the Virginia "insane asylum" at Williamsburg, shortly before the Revolution, the mentally ill began to be moved from jails and almshouses to state-sponsored, more humane institutions. Early on, the great cost of mental illness precluded voluntary efforts to cope for people of ordinary means...