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...East Tibet, destroying over a thousand monasteries and killing or imprisoning countless monks and lamas; the Chinese undertook a full-scale campaign to eliminate once and for all the region's religion and customs. During the bloody upsurge the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and temporal ruler, fled to asylum in India, charging that Peking had ignored its agreement with his country...
...NEST, by Dale Wasserman. Until I saw this play, I didn't understand those stories you read about the audience joining in the strike chants at Waiting for Lefty, and all that stuff, but I defy you not to want to join the strike of the inmates of the asylum at the end of the first act. 7:30 at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, by Dale Wasserman, is just remarkable. For one thing, you're likely to find yourself holding yourself back from cheering the hero and booing the villainess, the Big Nurse who runs the lunatic asylum. I'm told sometimes the audience doesn't even hold itself back, it just cheers and boos. 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton Street in Boston...
...early announcement that it would welcome the return of outside investors, the military government appeared to be infected with an irrational xenophobia. One reason was the junta's conviction that Chile's chaos had been largely brought about by the Latin American radicals who had been granted asylum by Allende. TIME'S Rauch was picked up by carabineros merely for walking past the burned-out shell of the Socialist Party headquarters in Santiago...
...Allende, charged that "U.S. imperialism had put down the revolutionary movement." Political leaders all across Latin America voiced their revulsion at the death of democracy in Chile. Mexican President Luis Echeverria, who had provided both financial and moral support for the Allende government, recalled his ambassador and offered asylum to any Chilean who sought it, specifically to Mrs. Allende. She refused at first, but at week's end changed her mind and accepted the offer. The Mexican government also ordered three days of official mourning, the first time it had so honored a foreign head of government since...